In einer umfassenden quantitativen Studie untersucht Kristian Stoye die Bedeutung der Geschwister- und Familienkonstellation für die Bildungschancen eines Kindes mit repräsentativen Daten aus dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel und der Deutschen Lebensverlaufsstudie. Die empirischen Befunde zeigen einen negativen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Bildungserfolg und einer größeren Kinderzahl in der Familie, einem ...
The rapid rise of China on the global economic stage could have substantial and unequal employment and wage effects in advanced industrialised democracies given China’s large volume of low-wage labour. Thus far, these effects have not been analysed in the comparative political economy literature. Building on new pooled time-series data, we analyse the effects of Chinese trade competition across 17 ...
Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than between sectors. Yet, there is significant variation in the level of inequality across sectors whilst the ...