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This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
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psychometric measures from a longitudinal cohort study of children in the Rhine-Neckar region in central Germany. In children with … comparing the children at age eight and age eleven, after the children have entered Germany's segregated secondary-school tracks …
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This paper establishes that individuals with an internal locus of control, i.e., who believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive effect only translates into labor income via the channel...
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In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of health variation to identify these effects and control...
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This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …
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development and the explanations of wage mobility, as well as volatility in West Germany, measured by ranks in the wage …
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the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …
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, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …
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Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer and occupation changers in...
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Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … differentials between full-time and part-time employees, leads one to suppose that the existing wage gap in Germany may impede women …
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