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mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …
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This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person?s actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...
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examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany … graduates face a higher risk of getting unemployed in Germany than in France. Concerning the reemployment prospects of the …
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This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen …
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This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany … spite of huge differences in the distribution of education in France and Germany, these countries prove surprisingly similar …
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This paper aims at formulating a theoretical model of educational attainment which is directly implementable empirically. The conceptual frame-work relies on the human capital theory, where individuals weigh the costs and the returns of education to decide on the optimal amount of education they...
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In this study, we examine the incidence and direct consequences of job mismatch for German graduates. Beyond measuring job mismatch by the comparison of qualification obtained by employees and required for a job, we employ self-reported skill mismatch variables concerning overall skills and more...
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, universities or specialized suppliers. Based on a sample of more than 2,500 firms in Germany we contrast young and mature firms …
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general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … member states, different institutional infrastructures for entrepreneurship. Based on a harmonized dataset, our results … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …
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successful than single entrepreneurs? These questions are analysed using data on academic spinoffs in Germany. Firm success is …
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