Unternehmen und Staat setzen erhebliche Ressourcen für den Umweltschutz ein. Dies spiegelt sich in der Entwicklung der Zahl der Beschäftigten, die direkt und indirekt für den Umweltschutz tätig sind. Im Jahr 2006 arbeiteten mit knapp 1,8 Millionen Personen rund 4,5 Prozent aller Erwerbstätigen für den Umweltschutz. 2002 waren es noch knapp 1,5 Millionen. Ein erheblicher Teil dieses Zuwachses ist dem ...
The paper studies the sources of gender segregation on the within-firm level and its effect on gender wage gap. In compare to numerous of papers devoted to gender segregation, this research is based on unique personnel data from one of Russian industrial firm for the period from 2002 to 2006. It's shown that generation and fastening of segregated employment structures can be explained, firstly, by ...
In our research we relate demographic characteristics to risk attitudes that in turn are linked to the incidence of informal or formal employment. Using the 2007 wave of the Ukrainian longitudinal monitoring survey (ULMS) to study the Ukrainian labor market, we first show that the determination of our measures of risk attitudes by carefully chosen predetermined demographic variables in Germany in 2004 ...
Using unique data from a supplement to the RLMS on displaced workers in Russia and from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) we analyze and provide the first solid evidence on displacement in Russia and Ukraine in a period of growth. Our estimates establish that quits dominate separations but that displacement rates are clearly not negligible amounting to between 2.5 and 3 percent of ...
While available evidence suggests that the events of September 11th negatively influenced the relative earnings of employees with Arab background in the US, it is not clear that they had similar effects in other countries. Our study for Germany provides evidence that the events also affected the relative earnings of Muslims outside the US. However, the results show that there was no uniform effect ...
Auf Basis der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) geht der Beitrag der Frage nach, wie sich die subjektiv empfundene Angst vor dem Verlust des Arbeitsplatzes seit Mitteder 1980er Jahre in Deutschland verändert hat. Dabei zeigt sich, dass sich vor allem zwischen 2001 und 2004 der Anteil der Beschäftigten deutlich erhöht hat, die sich große Sorgen um den Fortbestand ihres Arbeitsverhältnisses ...
