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Atypische Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnisse – Einleitung zum Schwerpunktheft (Atypical employment - Introduction)
Keller, Berndt; Nienhueser, Werner - In: Industrielle Beziehungen - Zeitschrift fuer Arbeit, … 21 (2014) 1, pp. 5-14
Zu den atypischen Beschaeftigungsverhaeltnissen zaehlen wir im Folgenden (im Sinne einer Nominaldefinition) Teilzeit, geringfuegige Beschaeftigung/Mini- und Midijobs, befristete Beschaeftigung, Leiharbeit, Werkvertraege sowie Solo-Selbststaendigkeit. Die dieses Schwerpunktheftes spiegeln sowohl...
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Self-Employed but Looking: A Labor Market Experiment
Koellinger, Philipp; Mell, Mell, J.; Pohl, Pohl, I.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2012
We examine whether having previously been self-employed is a negative signal on the job market. In a UK field experiment where two applications of otherwise equally qualified individuals were sent out in response to the same vacancies in human resource management, we find that entrepreneurs...
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Intergenerational Mobility in Educational and Occupational Attainment
Majumder, Rajarshi - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 4 (2010) 4, pp. 463-494
Disparities between social groups transcend the boundary of current generation and perpetuate across future generations as well. This is manifested as low intergenerational mobility in terms of both education and occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific ethnic groups...
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Educational and occupational mobility across generations in India: social and regional dimensions
Ray, Jhilam; Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Educational and Occupational Mobility is a cherished dream for all groups of people, more so for those who are at the bottom rungs of society. However, it is often seen that upward mobility is concentrated among the socially well-offs leading to divergence in educational attainment and...
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Intergenerational mobility in educational & occupational attainment: a comparative study of social classes in India
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Discrimination against specific ethnic groups transcends the boundary of current generation and perpetuates across future generations as well. This is manifested as low Intergenerational Mobility in terms of both Education and Occupation in developing countries in general, and among specific...
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
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Economic transformation and the gender earnings gap in urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 2, pp. 305-329
The gender wage gap and its development in urban China is analysed utilising two large scale surveys covering 10 provinces for the years 1988 and 1995. The results indicate that from an international perspective, the gender wage gap in urban China appears to be relatively small. It is, however,...
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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - Economics Discipline Group, Business School - 2014
We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration using information from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of occupations in Canada. We first augment...
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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - Department of Economics, Ryerson University - 2014
We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration using information from the O*NET and a unique dataset that includes both the last source country occupation and the first four years of occupations in Canada. We first augment...
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Labour Market Matters - December 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
While not speaking either English or French is widely understood to be a serious barrier to employment and gainful remuneration in Canada, a study entitled “The effect of linguistic proximity on the occupational assimilation of immigrant men†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 144) by Alicia...
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