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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2016

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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Educational Expansion and Returns to Education. A Comparative Study on Germany, France, the UK, and Hungary.

Brauns, Hildegard; Müller, Walter; Steinmann, Susanne - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1997

The paper proposes an empirical examination of the consequences of educational expansion and reform in four European countries in terms of school-leavers' labour market chances. The empirical analyses focus on the returns to higher education on the one side and vocational qualification as...

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Education and Unemployment: Patterns of Labour Market Entry in France, the United Kingdom and Germany

Brauns, Hildegard; Gangl, Markus; Scherer, Stefani - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1999

"Over the last two decades, youth unemployment emerged as one of the major problems of many contemporary European … educational stratification of unemployment in early labour market career and its institutional embeddedness in specific education … and employment systems. For the sake of comparative analysis, the paper investigates youth unemployment in France, the …

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Education and Labour Market Entry across Europe : The Impact of Institutional Arrangements in Training Systems and Labour Markets

Gangl, Markus - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 2000

cover unemployment and occupational allocation as two major dimensions of early labour market outcomes, applying multilevel …

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Early Career Patterns - a Comparison of Great Britain and West Germany

Scherer, Stefani - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, … - 1999

. The analysis covers the whole range of employment statuses including periods of unemployment and inactivity that …

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How have employment transitions for older workers in Germany and the UK changed?

Wright, David - 2015

Extending working life is an objective for many nations. However, the UK government has recently reported only modest improvement "compared to many nations". A comparison of European, Labour Force Surveys show that Germany has reversed early retirement much faster than the UK since 2003. This...

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Has atypical work become typical in Germany? Country case studies on labour market segmentation

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - 2013

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or dualization of employment in Germany. While labor market duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market...

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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects.

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - 2011

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

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