Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht empirisch, wie Berufe individuelle Erwerbsverläufe strukturieren. Berufe werden hier als Institutionen verstanden, die Bildungssystem und Arbeitsmarkt miteinander verknüpfen und nach dem Grad ihrer Institutionalisierung variieren. Den theoretischen...

Dieser Report dokumentiert die methodischen Ansätze für die beruflichen Alterungs- und Fachkräfteverfügbarkeitsanalysen im Projekt Work&Age - Berufe im Demografischen Wandel und ist damit die Grundlage für die fachliche Diskussion. Ziel des Projekts Work & Age war es, die...

This paper investigates the occupational attainment and job mobility of permanent ruralto-urban migrants and compares them with migrants who were born with an urban hukou. Using data from the 2003 China General Social Survey, we examine how much of the gaps in occupational-prestige scores...

The influence of the working life of women on their number of children has been widely discussed among demographers. Already in 1979, Butz and Ward demonstrated a negative correlation between the fertility and workforce participation of women in the US. Since then many researchers have gathered...

We investigate the effect of broad personality traits - the Big Five - on an individual's decision to become self-employed. In particular, we test an overall indicator of the entrepreneurial personality. Since we find that the level of selfemployment varies considerably across professions, we...

The paper deals with the regulation of professions in Italy. It is a very traditional system of regulation based on inputs control. This regulation is clearly excessive for most of the professions. In fact, market failures - both in terms of information asymmetries and externalities - do not...

The market has both a coordination function and an incentive function. The first theorem of welfare economics is all about coordination; the principal-agent model is all about incentives. What is the relative importance of the market in carrying out these two functions? While there has been a...

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...