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Doing science, forgoing childbearing? Evidence from a sample of female scientists in Austria
Buber, Isabella; Berghammer, Caroline; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2011
Academic women in Austria and Germany have extraordinarily high final levels of childlessness of 45-60%, as documented … ideals and intentions in Austria. It analyses whether high childlessness and low numbers of children are intended or not. By … Sciences (n=196). It comprises women aged 25-45 who work in different scientific fields in Austria. Female scientists aged 40 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352573
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Wissenschaftlerinnen in Österreich: Zusatzerhebung im Rahmen des GGS. Dokumentation der Datenerhebung und deskriptive Ergebnisse
Buber, Isabella - 2010
relationships, it was carried out in Austria in 2008/09. Additionally, the Austrian Academy of Sciences financed data collection … among female scientists in Austria. In total, 247 women up to the age of 45 years who applied for a scholarship at the … the sample. Up to now, very little was known about the fertility behaviour of academic women in Austria, but also in other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352584
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Vocational Training: Does it speed up the Transition Rate out of Unemployment?
Cockx, Bart; Bardoulat, Isabelle - 2000
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on therate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases theunemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324504
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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout (Revised Version)
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600953
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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - 2004
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261872
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The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265807
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The impact of demographic change on human capital accumulation
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269139
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Will There Be a Shortage of Skilled Labor? An East German Perspective to 2015
Buscher, Herbert S.; Dettmann, Eva; Sunder, Marco; … - 2009
We analyze the supply and demand of skilled labor in an East German federal state, Thuringia. This state has been facing high unemployment in the course of economic transformation and experiences population aging and shrinking more rapidly than most West European regions. In a first step, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271401
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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
Cockx, Bart Leo Wim - 2003
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a ?control function? estimator accounting for variable treatment effects. In the absence of interaction effects between explanatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272726
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Improving the employment rates of people with disabilities through vocational education
Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Polidano, Cain - 2011
During the 2001-8 period, the employment rate of people with a disability remained remarkably low in most western economies, hardly responding to better macroeconomic conditions and favourable anti-discrimination legislation and interventions. Continuing health and productivity improvements in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278628