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Frauen tragen immer mehr zum gemeinsamen Verdienst in Partnerschaften bei

Holst, Elke; Kröger, Lea - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 12, pp. 10-13

Frauen in Partnerschaften sind in Deutschland immer häufiger berufstätig. Ihr Beitrag zum gemeinsamen Verdienst lag im Jahr 2011 bei 30 Prozent, was einem Zuwachs von drei Prozentpunkten gegenüber dem Jahr 2000 entspricht. Dies zeigen aktuelle Berechnungen des DIW Berlin auf Grundlage von...

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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career : evidence from Kosovo’s school-to-work transition survey

Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34

, on average, women have lower education attainment than men but this educational disparity is masked among the sample of … to women’s education among employed women are low because there is little variation in educational attainment among the … to women’s education rise, confirming the lower productivity-related characteristics of non-employed women compared to …

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Industrial decline and labor reallocation in a transforming economy : Romania in early transition

Earle, John S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

affected by both individual and firm characteristics. Among other results, university and general high school education tend to …, but not to agriculture. Workers with primary and vocational education have the highest probability of becoming unemployed … education). Compared with workers in state-owned companies, workers from the private sector, especially from enterprises of …

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Another economic miracle? : the German labor market and the great recession

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

Germany’s labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the strong economic position due to recent labor market reforms, the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies, the extension of short-time work, time buffers due to...

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Subjective well-being and selected economic, demographic, and job factors in OECD countries

Marilou, Ioakimidis; Kiohos, Apostolos - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 3, pp. 71-81

This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...

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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour conditions. Our analysis, however, goes beyond this simplistic argument and brings to light some important similarities. For this purpose, we estimate a dynamic...

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Labour market and labour market policies during great recession the case of Estonia

Eamets, Raul - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-25

The purpose of the paper is to analyse how labour market and labour market institutions reacted during recent crises. In early 1990s Estonia introduced a set of rather unique policy options like currency board as a ground for monetary policy, low taxes, open foreign trade policy, low public...

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Business cycle and spillover effects on pre-retirement behavior in Spain

Jimenez-Martin, Sergi; Castello, Judit - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

We test the hypothesis that exits from the labor market for pre-retirement individuals in Spain respond mainly to economic conditions and to incentives by analyzing two effects. First, we test the existence of spillover effects from a reform of the old-age pension system on transitions from...

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Internet addiction among Greek university students : demographic associations with the phenomenon, using the Greek version of young's Internet addiction rest

Frangos, Christos C.; Frangos, Constantinos C.; Kiohos, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 1, pp. 49-74

Internet addiction (IA) is a new disorder described in 1996 by the psychologist Kimberly Young. The aim of this paper is to estimate the percentage of IA among Greek university students. Results of a sample survey among 1876 Greek university students, 18-27 years old, are presented. The...

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Educación y escuela en el año del bicentenario de Argentina historia reciente : Tucumán 1990/2010

Macián de Barbieri, Liliana - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-25

education. Review is focused on the Province of Tucumán, where he studied education policy and some of their results. It … analyzes the contents of the Federal Education Law No. 24,195, the Education Funding Law No. 26,075 and the National Education … Federal Law (1993) and National Law (2006) set extensions in the compulsory years of education reaching more people. Aimed at …

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