is to reduce overtime work in order to allow the employment of more people. This paper suggests that such a concept faces … major problems. Using Germany as a case study, it is shown that the group of workers with the highest risks of becoming … reduction in overtime will lead to less production and hence also to a decline in the level of unskilled employment. The paper …

and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human … worries. While individuals are strongly pulled into self-employment if it offers higher earnings, immigrants are additionally …

panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants …. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for … individuals with a high willingness to take risks. Some evidence suggests that this result is channeled through reservation wages …

This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical …