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Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of … differentiated by ethnic origin, gender and generation. This allows visualization of differences by ethnic groups and development …

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Cultural Integration in Germany

Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis

Albrecht, James; van Ours, Jan C. - 2001

more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude …

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Firm recruitment behaviour: sequential or non-sequential search?

van Ommeren, Jos; Russo, Giovanni - 2009

In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job...

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Can training programs or rather wage subsidies bring the unemployed back to work? A theoretical and empirical investigation for Germany

Neubäumer, Renate - 2010

administrative data set from Germany and statistical matching techniques. Our treatment groups consist of unemployed persons taking …

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Wage premia for newly hired employees: Theory and evidence

Kampkötter, Patrick; Sliwka, Dirk - 2011

We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...

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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2003

In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship. Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he shows that having a background in a large number of different roles increases the probability of becoming an...

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Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2003

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small firms are hothouses for nascent entrepreneurs. The empirical estimation takes the rare events nature of...

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The optimal timing of school tracking

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - 2004

tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …

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