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). …

do immigrants fare with respect to wages, employment, and occupational choices; are immigrants in competition with the … has not taken place to a full extent. Overall, immigrants hardly affect the wages and employment levels of natives, and …

data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …

countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors investigate the impact of union … coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …