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Does part-time and intermittent work during early motherhood lead to regular work later? : a comparison of labor behavior of mothers with young children in Germany, Britain, the Ne...

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 15-23

We use data from Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to examine whether part-time and intermittent work …

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Pathways into self-employment in the United States and Germany

MacManus, Patricia A. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 24-30

compares pathways into self-employment among men and women in the United States and Western Germany. Academic and vocational … credentials are more important for stabilizing self-employment in the United States than in Germany, where the lack of credentials …

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Early career experiences and later career outcomes : comparing the United States, France and Germany

Margolis, David N.; Simonnet, Véronique; Vilhuber, Lars - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 31-38

years later using data from France, (western) Germany, and the United States. Relative to most of the literature, we … across countries. Labor market outcomes in Germany are consistent with a dual labor market model. In the case of American …

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Income mobility in the United States and Germany : a comparison of two classes of mobility measures using the GSOEP, PSID, and CPS

Houtenville, Andrew J. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 59-65

The United States is often considered to be more free-wheeling and mobile than Germany; however, previous cross …

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Do immigrants improve their housing quality when they move? : evidence from the German socio-economic panel

Clark, William A. V.; Drever, Anita I. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 87-94

Previous research using the German Socio-Economic Panel showed that immigrants moved slightly more fre-quently than native-born Germans. The research in this paper extends that work and examines the extent to which this increased mobility is translated into improved housing quality. Overall, we...

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Gender effects as macro-level effects : Germany and the United States 1991 - 1997

Amoroso, Lisa M. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 128-134

years of longitudinal data from Germany and the United States, 1991-1997 to demonstrate that gender issituated within other …

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Long-term labor force exit and economic well-being : a cross-national comparison of public and private income support

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Lillard, Dean R.; Valenti, Paola M. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 146-152

This paper examines how the economic well-being of households changes after a male household member exits the labor force. We examine, in four countries, labor force exits at various ages and present evidence on household income from various sources before and after the exit occurs. We focus on...

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Immaterielle Investitionen in Deutschland und im internationalen Vergleich

Schumacher, Dieter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 66 (1997) 2, pp. 243-257

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Inequality Trends in the German Income Distribution

Biewen, Martin - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 275-283

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Changes in Permanent Income Inequality in the United States and Germany in the 1990s

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Butler, J.S.; Houtenville, Andrew J. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 284-289

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