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Self-employment and subjective well-being
Binder, Martin; Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin - 2021
Self-employment contributes to employment growth and innovativeness and many individuals want to become self-employed due to the autonomy and exibility it brings. Using "subjective well-being" as a broad summary measure that evaluates an individual's experience of being self-employed, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012415754
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Personnel policy adjustments when apprentice positions are unfilled: Evidence from German establishment data
Hinz, Tina - 2016
Weiterbildung, Übernahme von Auszubildenden oder Entfristung von Beschäftigten. Zusätzlich gibt es kein Anzeichen dafür, dass …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539577
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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020
Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242330
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Less school (costs), more (female) education? : lessons from Egypt reducing years of compulsory schooling
Elsayed, Ahmed; Marie, Olivier - 2020
Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012237089
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Avoiding Labor Shortages by Employer Signaling - On the Importance of Good Work Climate and Labor Relations
Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2010
Reversing the original signaling model, this study explains how employers signal the non-observable quality of their workplace and thereby reduce labor shortages. Based on a company data set of 204 German firms, the authors find, as predicted by their theory, that the existence of a works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141540
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Math, girls and socialism
Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018
This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality … in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most … resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies: mathematics. Using the German division as a natural experiment, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011926594
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Math, girls and socialism
Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018
This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality … in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender norms. We focus on one of the most … resilient and pervasive gender gaps in modern societies: mathematics. Using the German division as a natural experiment, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863862
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The happy artist? : an empirical application of the work-preference model
Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - 2012
The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009489989
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The happy artist? : an empirical application of the work-preference model
Steiner, Lasse; Schneider, Lucian - 2011
The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492561
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The Happy Artist? An Empirical Application of the Work-Preference Model
Steiner, Lasse - 2011
The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118637