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Do Women in Highly Qualified Positions Face Higher Work‐To‐Family Conflicts in Germany than Men?
Busch-Heizmann, Anne - 2018
opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany - as a conservative welfare state - women …
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128093
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Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills
Budria, Santi - 2012
People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains depend on an individual's set of non-cognitive skills. Using the 2000-2008 waves of the German Socioeconomic Panel dataset (SOEP), a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107253
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The Performance of Immigrants in the German Labor Market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960069
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What Determines the Duration of Stay of Immigrants in Germany? Evidence from a Longitudinal Duration Analysis
Gundel, Sebastian; Peters, Heiko - 2008
to 2006. We conduct a Cox proportional hazard model with years of residence in Germany as waiting time. The analysis … agreements with Germany show a considerably higher likelihood of leaving the country relative to the others. The main finding is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220087
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany : Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013
Despite numerous studies on skill development,we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality, time...
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Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Children's Non-Cognitive Skills
Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2013
We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160238
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Does It Pay To Be a Woman? Labour Demand Effects of Maternity-Related Job Protection and Replacement Incomes
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014
-related job protection in Germany on employment opportunities for women in childbearing age without children for whom the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046727
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Przekształcenia strukturalne w rolnictwie Polskim
Skawińska, Eulalia - In: Ekonomia 23 (1994) 273, pp. 81-95
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