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Continuous Training, Job Satisfaction and Gender: An Empirical Analysis Using German Panel Data
Burgard, Claudia; Görlitz, Katja - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601036
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Apprenticeship, vocational training and early labor market outcomes: In East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - 2015
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504530
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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213877
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Continuous Training, Job Satisfaction and Gender: An Empirical Analysis Using German Panel Data
Burgard, Claudia; Görlitz, Katja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220612
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Unmet aspirations as an explanation for the age U-shape in human wellbeing
Schwandt, Hannes - 2013
theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially … abandoned and experienced with less regret during old age. In a unique panel of 132,609 life satisfaction expectations matched … support theories that unmet expectations drive the age U-shape in wellbeing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322355
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Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-Shape in Human Wellbeing
Schwandt, Hannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially … abandoned and experienced with less regret during old age. In a unique panel of 132,609 life satisfaction expectations matched … support theories that unmet expectations drive the age U-shape in wellbeing. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896287
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Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills
Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2013
We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292383
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How does education improve cognitive skills? Instructional time versus timing of instruction
Dahmann, Sarah - 2015
This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence: the role of instructional quantity and the timing ofinstruction with respect to age. To identify causal effects, I exploit a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288147
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Self-managed working time and employee effort: Theory and evidence
Beckmann, Michael; Cornelissen, Thomas; Kräkel, Matthias - 2015
This paper theoretically and empirically examines the impact of self-managed working time (SMWT) on employee effort. As a means of increased worker autonomy, SMWT can theoretically increase effort via intrinsic motivation and reciprocal behaviour, but can lead to a decrease of effort due to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288148
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Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany
Zapf, Ines - 2015
In Germany, overtime work is a well-established instrument for varying working hours of employees and is of great importance for establishments as a measure of internal flexibility. However, not all employees are affected to the same degree by a variation of the work effort through overtime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301385