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Berufe und soziale Ungleichheit – Thematische Einführung und Inhalte des Sonderhefts
Ebner, Christian; Haupt, Andreas; Matthes, Britta - In: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und … 72 (2020) Suppl 1, pp. 1-17
im Themenfeld Berufe und soziale Ungleichheit steckt. Die Themenblöcke befassen sich mit Fragen von Berufswahl und …
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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data: An application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz C. - 2012
of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top … with the wage dispersion of an individual's occupation. …
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Occupational attainment and immigrant economic progress in Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2008
Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings...
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The impact of education and occupation on temporary and permanent work incapacity
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Lau, Daniel; Pozzoli, Dario - 2012
contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and occupation by estimating a quasi-maximum-likelihood discrete factor … administrative registers for 1998-2002. We generally find an independent role of both education and occupation on temporary work …, the effects of education and occupation on permanent work incapacity are generally insignificant. …
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Closing in on Closure. Occupational Closure and Temporary Employment in Germany
Stuth, Stefan - 2017
There is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of...
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Serial entrepreneurship: differentiating direct from latent re-entrants
Amaral, A. Miguel; Baptista, Rui - 2007
This study is the first to examine the decision to re-enter business ownership by entrepreneurs who have exited their first business using a longitudinal matched employer-employee database. This kind of data allow us to distinguish between those serial entrepreneurs who re-enter business...
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On the effects of redistribution on growth and entrepreneurial risk taking
Clemens, Christiane; Heinemann, Maik - 2005
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Credit constraints, idiosyncratic risks, and wealth distribution in a heterogeneous agent model
Clemens, Christiane; Heinemann, Maik - 2007
. Workers and firm owners are subject to idiosyncratic shocks. Entrepreneurship is the riskier occupation. Compared to an … and entrepreneurs with high individual productivity tend to remain in their present occupation, whereas low productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265142
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Occupational choice and social contacts across regions
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
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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Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting: the role of risk attitudes
Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2006
the level of occupation categories, region, gender and labor market experience. We also find that risk preferences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267608