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This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the interconnectedness of social contacts, we compare rural and agglomerated areas. A smaller community size in rural areas generates greater network closure. Agents' neighborhoods are more likely...
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This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...
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There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is … like Germany occupations also reflect a general socio-economic standing. This paper looks at the patterns of employment in … Germany, analyzes how individual men and women access jobs given their family background, and investigates why men and women …
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There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is … like Germany occupations also reflect a general socio-economic standing. This paper looks at the patterns of employment in … Germany, analyzes how individual men and women access jobs given their family background, and investigates why men and women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272294
business careers, and by investigating differences between native women (both from West and East Germany) and migrants using a … children, they choose self-employment as a way to circumvent unemployment. Women who are more educated and do not have under …
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and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German … Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that self-employment is not significantly affected by exposure to Germany or by human … self-employed than native Germans. The earnings of self-employed men increase with exposure to Germany, hours worked and …
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Angebots- und Nachfragelücken für qualifizierte Arbeitskräfte sind in den letzten Jahrzehnten in Deutschland, wie auch …
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We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
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reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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