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The Performance of Immigrants in the German Labor Market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

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 immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills … gap. Immigrants are initially less likely to participate in the labor market and more likely to be unemployed. While …

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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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Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility

Sologon, Denisa Maria - 2009

This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on ECHP, minimum distance estimator is...

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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany - State Dependence Before and after the 'Hartz Reforms'

Königs, Sebastian - 2014

In this article, we study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. We show that there is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68%...

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Interrelationships among Locus of Control and Years in Management and Unemployment : Differences by Gender

Trzcinski, Eileen - 2010

This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial/leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...

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Self-Reported Satisfaction and the Economic Crisis of 2007-10 : Or How People in the UK and Germany Perceive a Severe Cyclical Downturn

Mertens, Antje - 2013

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Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU : 1994-2001

Solognon, Denisa Maria; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2009

Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longerterm earnings relative to cross-sectional inequality and how does it differ across the EU? Our basic...

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Duration of Maternity Leave in Germany : A Case Study of Nonparametric Hazard Models and Penalized Splines

Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Kauermann, Göran - 2009

The paper investigates maternity leave behavior in West Germany for females being employed between 1995 and 2006 using data from the German Socio Economic Panel. The observational study focuses on the investigation of individual and family-related covariate effects on the duration of maternity...

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Quantifying the Psychological Costs of Unemployment : The Role of Permanent Income

Knabe, Andreas; Raetzel, Steffen - 2008

Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In contrast to previous studies, we apply Friedman's...

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Locus of Control and Low-Wage Mobility

Schnitzlein, Daniel; Stephani, Jens - 2013

We investigate whether non-cognitive skills – in particular Locus of Control – are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and...

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