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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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Transatlantic differences in labour markets changes in wage and non-employment structures in the 1980s and the 1990s
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2005
with and without apprenticeship training. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266860
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Alternative approaches to evaluation in empirical microeconomics
Blundell, Richard W.; Dias, Monica Costa - 2002
Four alternative but related approaches to empirical evaluation of policy interventions are studied: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, and instrumental variables. In each case the necessary assumptions and the data requirements are considered for estimation of a number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318482
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Between-group Competition in the Labor Market and the Rising Returns to Skill: US and France 1964-2000
Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
This paper describes the changes in the composition of the labor force in the last 35 years and quantifies the substitution of low education / high experience workers by low experience / high education workers by using US and French microdata. The consequences of this substitution on the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262498
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Mismatch in the graduate labour market among immigrants and second-generation ethnic minority groups
Byrne, Delma; McGuinness, Seamus - 2009
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrant and ethnic minority graduates from UK universities. The paper empirically demonstrates that immigrant and second-generation ethnic minority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277696
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A túl- és az alulképzés bérhozama 25 országban
Galasi, Péter - 2008
By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494684
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The employment of mothers: Recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010
. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274751
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Between familial imprinting and institutional regulation: Family related employment interruptions of women in Germany before and after the German reunification
Drasch, Katrin - 2012
In this paper, I examine how family related employment interruptions for women in the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany … in East and West Germany are found to exist with respect to family related employment interruptions. These interruptions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323802
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Ostdeutsche, westdeutsche und ost-west-mobile Mütter im Vergleich
Grunow, Daniela; Müller, Dana - 2012
Ostdeutschland aufgewachsen sind, finden wir Hinweise auf sozialisationsbedingte Gemeinsamkeiten, die erst nach Kontrolle … mothers in reunified Germany, 1992-2009. During this time, East and West Germany share similar family policies, yet, the … mothers have lived in western Germany prior to the birth of their first child, the more similar they behave to West German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323808
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601059