Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant … correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …

. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment benefits, social assistance, early retirement and …. The German labor market has been plagued by high and persistent unemployment in the last two decades in combination with a …, their recent reforms and - where already possible - effects of these reforms. Overall, Germany seems to be on the right …

-Economic Panel) provides an interesting perspective on how reservation wages change over time and how they correlate with accepted … wage offers for workers who make the transition from unemployment to employment. The findings have important policy …This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages of unemployed workers and …

West Germany, we find strong true state dependence in all three states. Moreover, compared to wage employment, non-employment …This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in … increases the probability of self-employment significantly, and self-employment goes along with a higher risk of future non-employment. …

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating … financial capital that can be transferred back to their country of origin upon return. In this paper, using German panel data …, we explore how temporary migrants differ from permanent migrants in their labor supply decisions and behavior. Upon …