By examining trends in intra-organizational and inter-organizational job transition probabilities among professional and managerial employees in Germany, we test the applicability of mainstream career theory to a specific context and challenge its implied change assumption. Drawing on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply linear probability models to show the influence of time, ...
The paper investigates unemployment behaviour in Germany and the UK between 1995 and 2005 based on data from national panel studies. The study focuses on the investigation of covariate effects like gender, age and education on the duration of unemployment. Dynamic duration time models are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration. The intention of the paper ...