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Starting Your Career with a Temporary Job: Stepping Stone or "Dead-End"?
Pavlopoulos, Dimitris - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
This paper uses panel data from the UK (BHPS) and Germany (GSOEP) to investigate the wage effect of entering the labour market with a temporary job. Further than the previous literature that studied the effect of the contract type on wage dynamics in the explained part of a wage regression, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596283
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Developing SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice: The (Near) Future of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)
Anger, S.; Frick, F.; Goebel, J.; Grabka, M.; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) ist als multidisziplinäres Haushaltspanel, das Informationen zu allen Personen, die in einem Panel-Haushalt leben, erhebt und damit alle Altersjahrgänge abdeckt, nach 25 Jahren Laufzeit auch zu einer Kohorten- Studie geworden. Der zunehmende Erfolg der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017497
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Do Changes in Regulation Affect Temporary Agency Workers' Job Satisfaction?
Busk, Henna; Jahn, Elke J.; Singer, Christine - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
that the negative effect on agency workers’ job satisfaction can be attributed to a decrease in wages and an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011186635
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Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence among German Workers
Eisenhauer, Philipp; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018704
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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … heterogeneous within skill groups. We test this hypothesis by combining micro-level information on wages and demographic and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519443
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Maintaining (Locus of) Control?: Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008754942
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Obesity and the Labor Market: A Fresh Look at the Weight Penalty
Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
OLS specifications, which have been the main approaches in previous studies. Women's wages and employment probabilities do … lower wages because they lack the muscular strength required in such occupations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744675
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The Feminization of Occupations and Change in Wages: A Panel Analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they … Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185789
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Maternity Leave and Its Consequences for Subsequent Careers in Germany
Franz, Nele E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who … point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic Panel from 1984 to 2011, to show that wages and the financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114567
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Causal Effects of Educational Mismatch in the Labor Market
Kleibrink, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages in Germany, using data from the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896256