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experience and managerial experience gained in dependent employment support a higher start-up size. Altogether, specific human … larger than others when measuring initial employment in full-time equivalents. We do not observe a significant effect on …
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Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between-country and within-country setup; using harmonized micro data from 18...
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Previous work suggests a general uncertainty surrounding the migration process acts as a barrier to outmigration. In this paper, we argue that this barrier is exacerbated when relative economic policy uncertainty is higher in the target country and mitigated when relatively higher in the origin...
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We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40 European countries. The result is a panel of mobility indices for 105 mesoregions (NUTS1), and 215 microregions (NUTS2). We use these indices to make three contributions. First, we...
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In dieser Arbeit werden Abschreibungsraten allgemeiner und beruflicher Ausbildungsinhalte im Erwerbsleben untersucht. Es wird analysiert, ob die Ausbildungsinhalte des Dualen Ausbildungssystems im Zeitalter der Akademisierung und der Computerrevolution eine beschleunigte Abschreibung erfahren...
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In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly affected by the working hours. In...
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The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...
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Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …
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Um Hinweise für die Erträge von Investitionen in die Fähigkeiten von Kindern im Vorschulalter geben zu können, möchten wir in diesem Beitrag die Ergebnisse von Simulationen zur Diskussion stellen. Der Humankapitalerwerb wird als Funktion von kognitiven und nichtkognitiven Fähigkeiten...
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entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper … investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge affects a start-up's employment growth. The depreciation of … university until the start-up is founded on firm's employment growth. Using quantile regressions, human capital depreciation is …
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