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We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females? willingness to work and the probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Results of a bivariate...
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We analyze the effects of regional structures on females? willingness to work as well as on the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job search. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German...
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The theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by better promotion prospects. A corresponding empirical test by Sicherman (1991), using mobility to an occupation with higher human capital requirements as an indicator...
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Thurow?s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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For most workers, access to suitable employment is severely restricted by the fact that they look for jobs in the regional labour market rather than the global one. In this paper we analyse how macro-level opportunities (regional labour market characteristics) and microlevel restrictions (the...
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. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where early childhood programs vary widely, based on differing auspice … particularly true for Germany where most programs are communitybased Kindergartens operated under similar structural conditions. In … West Germany, differentiating associations for the children of German citizens as compared to those of immigrants. Using …
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This paper deals with the economic performance of various population groups in Germany giving special attention to … subsidized by the re-distribution process rapidly and strongly decreases with progressing duration of stay in Germany. On the …
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West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of … than the immigrant population in Germany. However, the range of economic performance across different ethnic groups in the … UK is much larger than that in Germany. The German corporatist welfare system is characterised by much stronger …
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