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There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is … like Germany occupations also reflect a general socio-economic standing. This paper looks at the patterns of employment in … Germany, analyzes how individual men and women access jobs given their family background, and investigates why men and women …
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business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a …
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and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human … self-employed than native Germans. The earnings of self-employed men increase with exposure to Germany, hours worked and …
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psychometrically derived personality variables. Occupational choice is modelled using multinomial logit estimation using the Household …
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We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
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reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …
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In modern societies, people are often classified as White Collar or Blue Collar workers: that classification not only informs social scientists about the kind of work that they do, but also about their social standing, their social interests, their family ties, and their approach to life in...
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs in the European Union. We identify the characteristics of the …
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This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be...
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mobility behaviour of migrants and natives are generated by neighbourhood characteristics - among which the level of ethnic … individual data covering the entire population of the city. The analysis shows that Caribbean (Surinamese and Antillean) migrants … significantly hamper the out-mobility of all individuals. The impact of family ties is the largest for Turkish and Moroccan migrants. …
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