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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? : heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement
Fries, Jan - 2014
This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over...
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Student employment : advantage or handicap for academic achievement?
Sprietsma, Maresa - 2015
and a half years after entering university. We use the amount of financial aid students receive after application as a …. There is significant selection of students into different types of student employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409555
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The use of flexible working contracts in West Germany : evidence from an establishment panel
Boockmann, Bernhard; Hagen, Tobias - 2001
This paper investigates under which conditions firms use fixed-term contracts, subcontracted and freelance work. Using a probit model which accounts for unobserved heterogeneity, we find that positive changes in expected or actual turnover are associated with a higher probability of employing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446246
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Does it pay to move? : returns to regional mobility at the start of the career for tertiary education graduates
Maier, Michael F.; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2016
probit model to account for the dependency between the migration decisions for tertiary education and for the first job. In … before and after tertiary education. Secondly, using an IV estimation strategy, we find significantly positive wage returns … mobility mostly focuses on job-to-job mobility. We analyse the determinants of early career mobility and estimate a bivariate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535812
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Workers, firms, or institutions : what determines job duration for male employees in Germany?
Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor);  … - 2008
We examine job durations of German workers using linked employeremployee data. Our results indicate that exit rates are strongly influenced by firm characteristics. The effects of some of these characteristics, however, are limited to particular job positions or skill groups. There is clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793918
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : What drives the skill-composition of labor flows in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011
This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424119
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Students’ e-skills, organizational change and diversity of learning processs : evidence from French universities in 2010
Youssef, Adel Ben; Dahmani, Mounir; Omrani, Nessrine - 2012
prepare students to a better entry into the labour market. In this paper, we focus on the evolution of students’ use of ICT in … such an institution characterized by organizational changes and we analyse the determinants of students’ e-skills using a … 2010 dataset of French university students. We show that students’ involvement in the use of ICT increases their e …
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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017
outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra cursework to continue … education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685140
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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017
outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra cursework to continue … education, the grade point average is unaffected and the likelihood of completing a Middle Track Secondary School degree falls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778191
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Life scientist mobility from academe to industry : does academic entrepreneurship induce a costly "brain drain" on the not-for-profit research sector?
Toole, Andrew A. (contributor); Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor) - 2007
When academic researchers participate in commercialization using for-profit firms there is a potentially costly trade-off their time and effort are diverted away from academic knowledge creation. This is a form of brain drain on the not-for-profit research sector which may reduce knowledge...
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