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) higher overall pay inequality in Germany; (II) higher pay inequalities between employees and workers in Belgium; and (III …) higher (lower) impact of educational credentials (work-post tenure) on earnings in Germany. We provide survey-based empirical … institutional details: although Germany and Belgium belong to the same "variety of capitalism", we provide evidence that small …
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003289886
In many European countries, the majority of workers have their wages directly defined by industry-level agreements. In addition, for some workers, industry agreements are complemented by firm-specific agreements. Yet, the relative importance of firm and industry agreements (in other words, the...
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This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a...
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wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried …-employment sector that offers better opportunities and monetary success. Self-employed women in Germany fare well and most importantly …
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wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried …-employment sector that offers better opportunities and monetary success. Self-employed women in Germany fare well and most importantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003750285
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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