Changing labour market risks in the service economy: low wages, part-time employment and the trend in working poverty risks in Germany

  • The article presents an analysis of the development of labour market risks in Germany in light of changing working poverty risks. Low hourly wages and part-time employment are identified as the main demand-side-related mechanisms for household poverty. Their measurement and development are discussed as well as their contribution to trends in working poverty risks. A rise in low wages, especially among part-time employed households, was decisive for the increase in working poverty risks in Germany by 45% between the end of the 1990s and the end of the 2000s. We therefore study these trends more closely in the multivariate analysis. The results show that while low wages are unequally distributed across occupations and industries, shifts in employment between sectors explain only a minor part of the change in low wages. However, they reveal a polarization of low-wage risks by skill-level and sector of employment, on the one hand, and full-time and part-time employees, on the other hand.

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Author:Jan Brülle, Markus GanglORCiDGND, Asaf Levanon, Evgeny Saburov
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-534712
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928718779482
ISSN:0958-9287
ISSN:1461-7269
Parent Title (German):Journal of European Social Policy
Publisher:Sage
Place of publication:London
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2018/07/05
Date of first Publication:2018/07/05
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/04/28
Tag:In-work poverty; industry sector; low-wage; part-time employment; skill-level
Volume:29
Issue:1
Page Number:15
First Page:115
Last Page:129
HeBIS-PPN:465980201
Institutes:Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen