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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 … from risk aversion on unemployment duration. However, we find significant effects when controlling for a non-linear or time … varying correlation between risk aversion and unemployment duration. Our results show that risk aversion is important when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286596
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294462
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Effective working hours and wages: the case of downward adjustment via paid absenteeism
Pfeifer, Christian - 2009
This paper compares contractual with effective working hours and wages, respectively. Effective working hours are defined as contractual working hours minus absent working hours. This approach takes into account workers' downward adjustment of working time via paid absenteeism if working time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265946
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Neo-Nazism and discrimination against foreigners: a direct test of taste discrimination
Braakmann, Nils - 2010
I test some predictions of Gary Becker's theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by … found in manufacturing and gastronomy. These results broadly confirm the predictions from taste discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271173
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Effective Working Hours and Wages: The Case of Downward Adjustment via Paid Absenteeism
Pfeifer, Christian - 2009
This paper compares contractual with effective working hours and wages, respectively. Effective working hours are defined as contractual working hours minus absent working hours. This approach takes into account workers' downward adjustment of working time via paid absenteeism if working time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514733
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Neo-Nazism and discrimination against foreigners: A direct test of taste discrimination
Braakmann, Nils - 2010
I test some predictions of Gary Becker’s theory of taste discrimination regarding discrimination of foreigners by … found in manufacturing and gastronomy. These results broadly confirm the predictions from taste discrimination. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008617007
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The impact of September 11th, 2001 on the job prospects of foreigners with Arab background: evidence fom German labor market data
Braakmann, Nils - 2007
Discrimination, September 11th, Exit from unemployment. This paper examines whether the attacks on the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265133
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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: A labor supply side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2011
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281775
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Relative wage positions and quit behavior: new evidence from linked employer-employee data
Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - 2010
We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265925
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Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Pfeifer, Christian; Schneck, Stefan - 2010
We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008621684