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The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications
Grund, Christian; Sliwka, Dirk - 2001
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction are explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, a basic job satisfaction function is constructed based on the empirical results, and...
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Low-wage careers: are there dead-end firms and dead-end jobs?
Mosthaf, Alexander; Schnabel, Claus; Stephani, Jens - 2010
Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 was able to earn wages above the low-wage threshold in 2003....
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Atypical work: who gets it, and where does it lead? ; some U.S. evidence using the NLSY79
Addison, John T.; Cotti, Chad D.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2009
Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential deficiencies, such jobs also functioned as a...
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Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?
Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Frank, Jeff - 2000
In Britain about 7% of male employees and 10% of female employees are in temporary jobs. In contrast to much of continental Europe, this proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey, we find that temporary workers report lower levels of...
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The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation
Kunze, Astrid - 2002
Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: unemployment, parental leave for female workers …
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The link between career risk aversion and unemployment duration: Evidence of non-linear and time-depending pattern
Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Ullrich, Britta - 2010
In this study, we investigate the nexus between career risk aversion and unemployment duration based on German survey … from risk aversion on unemployment duration. However, we find significant effects when controlling for a non-linear or time … varying correlation between risk aversion and unemployment duration. Our results show that risk aversion is important when …
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Earnings progression, human capital and incentives: Theory and evidence
Frederiksen, Anders - 2010
The career prospects of newly recruited employees differ substantially within an organization. The stars experience a considerable growth in earnings; others can hardly maintain their entry salaries. This article sheds light on the mechanisms generating the observed heterogeneity in earnings...
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In the Right Place at the Wrong Time : The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers? Careers
von Wachter, Till; Bender, Stefan - 2004
We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with different turnover rates and for selective job mobility, we use changes over time in firm- and age-specific...
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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows
Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
individual-level data for West Germany for the period 1983 to 1994, this paper explores both the demographic heterogeneity of … German unemployment in the long term, and the cyclical sensitivity of the unemployment experience across demographic groups …. The analysis moves beyond that of unemployment rates to a detailed investigation of transition rates from employment to …
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Determinants of lifetime unemployment: a micro data analysis with censored quantile regressions
Schmillen, Achim; Möller, Joachim - 2010
The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the long-term distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …
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