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Age and gender differences in job opportunities

Humpert, Stephan - 2012

There is only a few literature on age specific occupational segregation. In this descriptive paper, I focus on job opportunities for newly hired older male and female workers. It is an enriched replication study of Hutchens (ILRR,1988), who showed that firms employ older workers, but hire them...

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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …

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Training participation of an aging workforce in an internal labor market

Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2010

We use a long panel data set for four entry cohorts into an internal labor market to analyze the effect of age on the probability to participate in different training measures. We find that training participation probabilities are inverted u-shaped with age and that longer training measures are...

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …

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Of housewives and feminists: Gender norms and intra-household division of labour

Görges, Luise - 2021

To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real … hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm … group chooses between strategies labelled as a family specialisation game (Career vs. Family), the Neutral group chooses A …

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Somewhere over the rainbow: Sexual orientation discrimination in Germany

Humpert, Stephan - 2012

This paper observes sexual orientation based differences in German incomes. Gay men and lesbian women sort themselves into different occupations and sectors than their heterosexual counterparts. I find evidence that cohabitating gay men have an income penalty of 9 to 10 percent compared with...

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Human capital diversity and entrepreneurship: Results from the regional individual skill dispersion nexus on self-employment activity

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk - 2013

Human capital has been shown to be highly important in the venture creation process. In this study, we account for the fact that human capital on the individual and regional levels may be interrelated in affecting entrepreneurship. We use German survey data, which allow us to focus on a specific...

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Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions in an internal labor market

Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - 2011

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...

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The link between career risk aversion and unemployment duration: Evidence of non-linear and time-depending pattern

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Ullrich, Britta - 2010

In this study, we investigate the nexus between career risk aversion and unemployment duration based on German survey data (GSOEP). Using a direct measurement of career risk aversion, we do not find a statistically significant linear effect from risk aversion on unemployment duration. However,...

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Working time, satisfaction and work life balance: A European perspective

Humpert, Stephan - 2014

Using three different measures for satisfaction, I investigate gender-specific differences in working time mismatch …

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