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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the … transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … maintained high educational mobility, comparable to the levels during Soviet times. However, we find that the younger cohorts …
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non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and … total working hours using a new panel data set. For unskilled and skilled workers in full-time employment, we find labour … marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …
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-the-job training itself on subsequent job mobility, career ladders and wage growth. …
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independently from education and that the results are not driven by workers' occupational mobility. …
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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This study analyzes the mobility between three labor market states: working in low paid jobs, working in higher paid … state dependence in non-employment. Moreover, I find evidence for a \low pay no pay cycle", i.e. being low paid or not …, being low paid does not have adverse effects on future employment prospects: the employment probability increases with low …
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impact on employment of mothers with young children. …
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Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We develop a working definition that may inform additional research and policy...
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the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups albeit at a decreasing rate. Among … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …
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