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| Author: | Krug, G. |
| Title: | In-work benefits for low-wage jobs: Can additional income reduce employment stability? |
| Journal: | European sociological review
2009 : AUG, VOL. 25:4, p. 459-474 |
| Index terms: | labour markets employment work low incomes subsidies pay Germany |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | It is argued in the paper that although government subsidies increase overall wages, employees interpret them as a signal of employers being unwilling to abide by the norm of reciprocity. This leads to negative side-effects on employment stability (herein as: empl-stby.), counteracting the positive effects of additional income on empl-stby. This article tests these hypotheses using a survey of in-work benefit recipients, with non-recipients as a comparison group. The propensity score matching method is applied to eliminate all compositional differences btw. benefit recipients and non-recipients except for the source of their income. It is shown that in-work benefits lead to perceived reciprocity violations etc. |
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