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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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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Work Hours Constraints and Health

Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 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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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations

Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...

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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?: Country Case Studies on Labour Market Segmentation

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focuson 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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Bowling Alone or Bowling at All?: The Effect of Unemployment on Social Participation

Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation for Germany using the German Socio …-Economic Panel. We find significant negative, robust and, for some activities, lasting effects of unemployment on social … participation. Causality is established by focussing on plant closures as exogenous entries into unemployment. Social norms, labor …

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Women between Part-Time and Full-Time Work: The Influence of Changing Hours of Work on Happiness and Life-Satisfaction

Gash, Vanessa; Mertens, Antje; Gordo, Laura Romeu - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

This paper asks whether part-time work makes women happy. Previous research on labour supply has assumed that as workers freely choose their optimal working hours on the basis of their innate preferences and the hourly wage rate, outcome reflects preference. This paper tests this assumption by...

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Unemployment and Smoking: Causation, Selection, or Common Cause? Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Schunck, Reinhard; Rogge, Benedikt G. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and … smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become … unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio …

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