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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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"Das 21. Jahrhundert ist weiblich": Unternehmerinnen in der Presse
Ettl, Kerstin; Welter, Friederike; Achtenhagen, Leona - 2016
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Presseberichterstattung über Unternehmerinnen insbesondere mit Blick darauf, welches Bild von Unternehmerinnentum in den Presseberichten vermittelt wird. Zu diesem Zweck wurden Artikel in sechs ausgewählten überregionalen deutschen Tageszeitungen im...
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Gender and migration background in intergenerational educational mobility
Schneebaum, Alyssa; Rumplmaier, Bernhard; Altzinger, … - 2014
gender and migration background. We find that the educational attainment of girls and migrants relative to their parents is …
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How well does education travel? Education and occupation with and without migration
Gächter, August; Smoliner, Stefanie - 2010
Using the Labour Force Survey (LFS) we explore the difference international migration makes for the distribution of occupational levels for any given level of education in the two countries of interest: Austria and Germany. Migrant outcomes are also being compared with home country outcomes,...
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The gender pay gap in informal employment in Poland
Rokicka, Magdalena; Ruzik, Anna - 2010
This paper addresses the issue of the gender pay gap in the formal and informal labour markets in Poland. The authors … verify the hypothesis of the existence of a gender pay gap in informal work and compare this gap with the one observed in the … formal (registered) labour market. Various analyses of available data show that size and characteristics of gender pay gap …
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Comparisons and contrasts of the impact of the crisis on euro area labour markets
Anderton, Robert; Jarvis, Valerie; Szörfi, Béla; … - 2015
The global financial and economic crisis – including two euro area recessions in 2008-2009 and 2011-2013 – has had a heavy impact on euro area labour markets. A notable feature throughout the crisis has been the considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity of labour market adjustments...
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Nokia’s Labor Inflows and Outflows in Finland: Observations from 1989 to 2010
Pajarinen, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri - 2013
Nokia’s ascent, dominance, and descent have resulted in significant labor inflows and outflows in Finland. In this paper, we document the aspects of these flows using official register-based data covering virtually all individuals and organizations in Finland. Our setup may be compared to a...
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Migrants and Natives in EU Labour Markets: Mobility and Job-Skill Mismatch Patterns
Jestl, Stefan; Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2015
as regards age groups, skill groups, gender, length of job tenure, etc. Apart from overall labour market mobility we also …
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Der Beschäftigungsbeitrag mittelständischer Exportunternehmen
Wolter, Hans-Jürgen; May-Strobl, Eva - 2013
Die Studie zeigt, dass sich insbesondere kapitalintensiv gefertigte Produkte, deren Fertigung mit hohen Skaleneffekten verbunden ist, für den Außenhandel eignen. Entsprechend treten vor allem Unternehmen aus dem Produzierenden Gewerbe und dem distributiven Sektor als Exporteure auf. Die...
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Können offene Stellen als Vorlaufindikator für Neueinstellungen dienen?
Bleninger, Philipp; Kettner, Anja; Pausch, Stephanie; … - 2012
In der ökonomischen Forschung fehlt bislang gesamtwirtschaftlich repräsentative empirische Evidenz zu der Frage, ob offene Stellen als Vorlaufindikator für die Beschäftigungsentwicklung gelten können. Bei der Interpretation der aktuellen Entwicklung des Stellenangebots wird dies häufig...
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