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Relative Wage Positions and Quit Behavior: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Schneck, Stefan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2010
We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average...
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A beveridge curve decomposition for Austria: What drives the unemployment rate?
Christl, Michael - 2019
The Austrian Beveridge curve shifted in 2014, leading to ongoing academic discussions about the reasons behind this shift. While some have argued that the shift was caused by a supply shock due to labour market liberalization, others have stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099113
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The retention effect of training – portability, visibility, and credibility
Zwick, Thomas - 2017
This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees’ retention. In a comparison group approach, the …
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Changes in Occupational Tasks and the Costs of Job Loss
Ivanov, Boris - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014363755
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Teenage Childbearing and the Welfare State
Kocharkov, Georgi; Mellert, Jan; Filote, Andra - 2015
Teenage birth rates differ significantly across developed countries. They are higher in countries with high income inequality and low intergenerational income mobility. We develop an economic theory of parental investments and risky sexual behavior of teenagers. The model is calibrated to match...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301712
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Intergenerational Transmission of Risk Attitudes - A Revealed Preference Approach
Leuermann, Andrea; Necker, Sarah - 2010
Using data the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we investigate whether the willingness to take risks which is revealed via observed choices of occupation is transmitted from parents to children. Our approach resembles the one by Dohmen et al. (2008) who investigate the same question using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270158
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Parenting Styles, Socioeconomic Status and (Non-)Cognitive Skills
Kugler, Philipp; Kroczek, Martin; Zühlke, Anne - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014363735
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Preferences for childcare policies: Theory and evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2010
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model … childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270253
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The Effect of Early Universal Daycare on Child Weight Problems
Lauber, Verena; Thomas, Lampert - 2014
As the number of young children in daycare increases, people start to worry about the effect of early non-parental care. This is of special relevance as investments in the early periods of life are shown to be most important for a child's long term development. Based on the German national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010396874
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Human Capital and Fertility in Germany after 1990: Evidence from a Multi-Spell Model
Sunder, Marco - 2010
determinants of fertility can be measured when at risk rather than ex-post, thus helping to reduce the risk of reverse causality …. The analysis finds evidence for strong recuperation effects, i.e. women with greater human capital endowments follow, on … average, a different birth history trajectory, but with negligible curtailment of completed fertility. …
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