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Stepping forward : personality traits, choice of profession, and the decision to become self-employed ; conference paper

Fritsch, Michael; Sorgner, Alina - 2013

We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single act...

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Informationsverhalten und Entscheidungsfindung bei der Studien- und Berufswahl : Studienberechtigte 2008 ein halbes Jahr vor dem Erwerb der Hochschulreife

Heine, Christoph; Willich, Julia; Schneider, Heidrun - 2010

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Herausforderungen an der Schnittstelle Schule - Beruf : Beiträge zur Fachtagung "Wege ebnen an der Schnittstelle Schule - Beruf. Wie gelingt ein erfolgreicher Übergang?" vom 18. September 2013 in Wien

Gesslbauer, Ernst (ed.); Putz, Sabine (ed.); … - 2014

Aus dem Vorwort: "... Ziel dieser Veranstaltung, die am 18. September 2013 in der Zentrale der OeAD GmbH in Wien stattfand, war es, Stärken und Schwächen im Übergangsmanagement in Österreich auszuloten und bisherige gute Ansätze (Good Practices) in diesem Kontext aufzuzeigen. Die...

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Measuring ambiguity preferences : conference paper

Cavatorta, Elisa; Schröder, David - 2014 - This version: February 28, 2014, Preliminary and incomplete

Ambiguity aversion has shown to be economically relevant and has been proposed as an explanation for many phenomena in economics and finance. While the literature has suggested a large variety of elicitation methods to measure ambiguity preferences, their consistency and reliability it is rarely...

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Structural change and the freight transport labour market : prepared for the Roundtable on Commercial Vehicle On-Board Safety Systems, January 5-6, 2017, Washington, DC

Blix, Mårten - Roundtable on Commercial Vehicle On-Board Safety … - 2017

Nations that have managed to become rich have had institutional features that supported incentives for value creation while ensuring that the ways insiders and special interest groups can extract monopoly rents are limited. Improved skills have been a central component of helping individuals and...

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Wage effects of labor market entry via temporary work agency employment : evidence for German apprenticeship graduates : conference paper

Buch, Tanja; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - 2013

apprenticeship system which is merged with the employment biographies of more than 8,000 apprenticeship graduates for the 1999 … we detect no significant wage disadvantage for graduates who switch to regular employment. An important percentage of … graduates who enter the labor market via a temp spell does, however, not manage to permanently leave the TWA sector and thus has …

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The economic returns to graduating with honors : evidence from law graduates ; conference paper

Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - 2014

success in the context of German law graduates. Using a difference-in-differences research design combined with entropy …

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Intra-firm wage compression and cost coverage of training : evidence from linked employer-employee data ; conference paper/ Pfeifer, Christian

Pfeifer, Christian - 2013 - (work in progress; Jahrestagung Verein für Socialpolitik; 26.2.2013)

This paper uses German linked employer-employee data in order to estimate the impact of intra-firm wage dispersion on the probability that firms pay for continuous training. About half of all firms in the estimation sample cover all direct and indirect training costs, which contradicts the...

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Does better pre-migration performance accelerate immigrants' wage assimilation? : conference paper

Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - 2013

This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...

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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013

The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...

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