This paper considers an employee's retirement intentions and its influencing factors. The role of conflicts that an employee experiences with his/her boss and the role of his/her health status are analyzed using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. Estimation results show that conflicts matter as...

Apart from having the main job, many people in Poland decide to take additional jobs. There are many potential factors which determine having a second job. These include varied needs of individuals, such as the desire to improve their material status, family situation, or the opportunities...

The issue of young people aged 15-24 that are part of NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training), is of particular interest for researchers and policy makers, since the social exclusion has strong negative impact on basic needs of persons. Determination of the extent of above social...

Generation Z, known also as 'Net generation' and 'Digital natives', is of particular interest for researchers do to its specifics originating from the changes caused in the everyday's live by the new technologies. This cohort is known to be highly vulnerable to several economic and social risks,...

The labour market providing individual resources and economic well-being is an actual topic in the economic and social policy discussion. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing, new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets). This study will...

Focussing on recent UK graduates, a wage gap of 12% is found. The unexplained component of the gap is small and a large fraction of the gap can be explained by subject choice, job characteristics, motivation and expectation variables. Motivation and expectations account for 44% of the explained...

This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK. Although differing in labor market regulations, moonlighting is a persistent phenomenon in both countries. Using panel data from the BHPS and the SOEP, reduced form participation equations are estimated for male...

In 1990 the German personal income tax schedule underwent a major change. We interpret this reform as a ?natural experiment' and use a panel of individual income tax returns to analyze the response of income to changes in the individual tax rates. Our results suggest an average elasticity of...

This paper uses a unique data set constructed from two sets of administrative records to examine the relationship between incarceration and employment rates for former female state prisoners from Illinois. Our analysis indicates that although prison is associated with declining employment rates...

Die Analyse von Weiterbildungsaktivitäten nimmt in der empirischen Literatur breiten Raum ein. Die meisten Artikel betrachten dabei jedoch ausschließlich die Gruppe der Erwerbstätigen oder die Gruppe der Arbeitslosen. Direkte Vergleiche des Weiterbildungsvolumens der beiden Gruppen sind rar....