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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - 2012

Little is known about the individual location behavior of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behavior 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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Testing the ‘Residential Rootedness' - Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja - 2012

exit from self-employment are associated with internal migration …

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Returns to Regional Migration : Causal Effect or Selection on Wage Growth?

Kratz, Fabian - 2012

Human capital theory predicts pecuniary returns to regional migration, but also positive self-selection of migrants …. Therefore, when estimating the causal effect of migration one has to take care of potential self-selection. Several authors … estimates of the returns to migration. We use data from the SOEP 1984-2010. First we analyze the time pattern of the wage …

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With Strings Attached : Grandparent-Provided Child Care and Female Labor Market Outcomes

Garcia-Moran, Eva - 2013

Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to other forms of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent-provided child care requires residing close to parents or in-laws...

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation : An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie - 2014

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...

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How Job Changes Affect People's Lives – Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data

Chadi, Adrian - 2015

For representative German panel data, we document that voluntary job switching is associated with higher levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas forced job changes do not affect life satisfaction clearly. Using plant closures as an exogenous trigger of switching to a new...

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Assimilation and Cohort Effects for German Immigrants

Gundel, Sebastian; Peters, Heiko - 2008

Demographic change and the rising demand for highly qualified labor in Germany attracts notice to the analysis of immigration. In addition, the pattern of immigration changed markedly during the past decades. Therefore we use the latest data of the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006...

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Who Leaves and When? – Selective Outmigration of Immigrants from Germany

Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012

The paper provides new evidence on the outmigration of foreign-born immigrants. We make use of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and employ penalized spline smoothing in the context of a Poisson-type Generalized Additive Mixed Model (GAMM), which enables us to incorporate bivariate...

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