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Is job stability declining in Germany? : evidence from count data models
Winkelmann, Rainer - 1998
The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000995782
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Immigrant labor and workplace safety
Bauer, Thomas K.; Million, Andreas; Rotte, Ralph; … - 1998
determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000995785
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Occupational mobility of ethnic migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001408887
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Is child like parent? : Educational attainment and ethnic origin
Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001410664
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Ethnic German migration since 1989 : results and perspectives
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, the German … economic situation in Germany deteriorated. Ethnic Germans are basically facing the same difficulties with social and economic … integration as foreigners. A majority of young Ethnic Germans have no cultural or language ties to Germany. Insufficient language …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001415661
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The economics of hospital trips and health care reform
Million, Andreas - 1998
One cornerstone of current attempts to reform the German public health care system by introducing private insurance schemes is the assumption that economic incentives play an important role in individual decision-making about using medical help. This hypothesis is examined for the case of demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269123
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Learning efficiency of economics students
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Using a stochastic frontier approach this paper evaluates the effects of substantial changes in the teaching material on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268679
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Overtime work and overtime compensation in Germany
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001402343
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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants …. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630299
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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630478