Unemployment rates are often higher for migrants than for natives. This could result from longer periods of unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models. Compared to natives with the same observable ...
The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
Job creation schemes (JCS) have been one important programme of active labour market policy (ALMP) in Germany for a long time. They aim at the re-integration of hard-to-place unemployed into regular employment. A thorough microeconometric evaluation of these programmes was hindered by the fact, that the available (survey) datasets have been too small to account for a possible occurrence of effect heterogeneity. ...
Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the population. Identifying individual characteristics that are responsible for the effect heterogeneity and using this information for a better allocation of individuals therefore bears some scope ...
Frauen sind in Europa zu einem erheblich geringeren Maße in Führungspositionen tätig als Männer; im europäischen Durchschnitt haben sie nur 10 % der Sitze in den höchsten Entscheidungsgremien der jeweils 50 größten börsennotierten Unternehmen inne. Dabei gibt es von Land zu Land beträchtliche Unterschiede: Spitzenreiter sind Slowenien und Lettland mit Anteilen von jeweils 22 %, Schlusslicht ist Italien ...
