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Since the labor market reforms around 2005, known as the Hartz reforms, Germany has experienced declining unemployment … unemployment rate. Also unemployed persons who exogenously lost their jobs are affected by the reforms. In line with the structure …
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Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
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Working-time political debates often focus on options for flexible and variable working hours. Meanwhile, employees' desire for more time sovereignty is gaining relevance. Although working time preferences and their impact on the German labor market are investigated in numerous studies, findings...
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increase in part-time employment, a less pronounced decline in unemployment and a greater reduction in weekly working hours …
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Die Debatte um Arbeitszeiten und deren Regulierung wird in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit erneut geführt. Empirische Grundlage sind dabei häufig Studien auf Basis des Mikrozensus oder des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP), die teilweise erhebliche Unterschiede in ihren Ergebnissen aufweisen...
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We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a … longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest that paternal unemployment makes children significantly more conscientious …
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Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic … dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted … increasing attention. Although many studies have documented the detrimental effects of unemployment for subjective well …
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By using longitudinal data the relation between satisfaction with life and unemployment is analyzed in this study. Data … the effects of voluntary and involuntary unemployment on life satisfaction. (2) Moreover, the intent is to answer the …
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, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …
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