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Investment Over the Business Cycle : Insights from College Major Choice
Blom, Erica - 2015
higher unemployment rates during typical schooling years select majors that earn higher wages, that have better employment … response to differences in particular majors' labor market prospects during a recession. However, higher unemployment leads to …
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The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships
Jansen, Anika - 2016
graduates. We test this hypothesis on data on the supply of apprenticeship places in Germany in all occupations from 2004 to …
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany : What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Busch, Anne - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...
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How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?
Prantl, Susanne - 2009
differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …-employment and occupational mobility after reunification more in regulated occupations in East Germany than in West Germany. Our …
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Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off : An Empirical Study of Centralised University Admissions in Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - 2021
We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in medicine and related subjects. This mechanism consists of three procedures based on final grades from school ("Abiturbestenverfahren", "Auswahlverfahren der Hochschulen") and on...
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Risk Aversion and Sorting into Public Sector Employment
Pfeifer, Christian - 2021
unemployment risk attitudes is larger than the impact of general risk attitudes, and (3) risk taking is rewarded with higher wages …
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
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Intergenerational Scars : The Impact of Parental Unemployment on Individual Health Later in Life
Ubaldi, Michele; Picchio, Matteo - 2023
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence …. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation … interpretation of the estimates. On the one hand, we found a nil effect for parental unemployment on mental health. On the other hand …
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Crime and the Labour Market : Evidence from a Survey of Inmates
Entorf, Horst - 2009
In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and the perceived probability of future recidivism. Results show that inmates with poor labour market...
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Do Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed Affect Participants' Well-Being? A Rigorous Look at (Un-)Intended Consequences of Labor Market Policies
Caliendo, Marco - 2019
driven by negative effects on unemployment and retirement insurance coverage. Our heterogeneity analysis reveals substantial …
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