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Intergenerational Transmission ofLanguage Capital and Economic Outcomes
Casey, Teresa; Dustmann, Christian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongstimmigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of secondgeneration immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861653
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Overskilling, Job Insecurity and Career Mobility
McGuinness, Seamus; Wooden, Mark - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
-related skills and abilities are utilized in current employment - is atransitory phenomenon... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862564
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Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility
Gielen, Anne C. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Market imperfections may cause firms and workers to under-invest in specific training. Thispaper shows that profit sharing may be a suitable instrument to enhance specific traininginvestments, either by enhancing wage flexibility or by increasing the returns to training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862579
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Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setbackfor Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975–-2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are theextensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work featuresmost prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly formore educated women, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861633
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Wage Structure and Labor Mobilityin the Netherlands 1999-2003
Borghans, Lex; Kriechel, Ben - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In this paper we document the wage structure and labor mobility in the Netherlands in theperiod 1999-2003. We explain the importance of wage-setting institutions in the Netherlandsand the main actors. The analyses are based on administrative sources allowing forcomparisons between and within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862602
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Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity inWage and Tenure Functions: Evidence fromGerman Linked Employer-Employee Data
Cornelißen, Thomas; Hübler, Olaf - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturingtime-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employeremployeedata (LIAB data set)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863112
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It’s the Opportunity Cost, Stupid!How Self-Employment Responds to FinancialIncentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter; Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
wages given up as an employee.Information on income from self-employment is of inferior quality and this is not just … it is not only the location of an income distribution thatmatters and that dispersion and (a)symmetry should not be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009496228
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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions andEarnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Sulla, Victor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
) data. By examining labor markettransitions, earnings levels, and earnings growth and their correlates using a recent … interms of the levels of unemployment. In terms of earnings, the picture is reversed, withfemales being worse off in terms of … the levels of earnings, while they have experiencedsomewhat smaller earnings decreases than males (though, owing to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522192
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A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed
Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Wadensjö, Eskil - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
-employment dynamics and the factors influencing entry and exit rates from self-employment. Using a large panel data set for Sweden, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859526
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859575