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Das kann doch nicht alles gewesen sein: So gelingt die berufliche Veränderung

Self-employment, Internal Migration and Place Embeddedness

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. Population geography has not researched this issue and entrepreneurship literature has given it little attention. This paper examines whether self-employed entrepreneurs are ‘rooted’ in place and also whether those who are more rooted in place are more likely to enter self-employment, thereby shedding new light ...

Testing the ‘Residential Rootedness’-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a ‘local event’, the literature argues that entrepreneurs are ‘rooted’ in place. This paper tests the ‘residential rootedness’ hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move over long distances (internal migration) than workers in paid employment. Using longitudinal data from the German ...

Long Maternal Leaves and The Gender Wage Gap (thesis)

This article examines the effect of long parental leave policies on the gender wage gap. I analyze the general equilibrium consequences of the introduction of generous job-protected parental leaves on female wages and female labor force composition. My evidence supports the hypothesis that generous child support for families can be costly for firms; and moreover, that these costs are passed on to women ...

Wer verdient wieviel? Die Abrechnung

Die Vollzeit-Papas

Sie haben Angst vor dem Karriereknick, nicht vor dem Wickeln: Väter in Elternzeit sind deshalb noch immer die Ausnahme. Eine Studie zeigt nun, dass die Sorge, weniger Geld zu verdienen, unnötig ist.

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Working poor" in Deutschland und den USA - Arbeit und Armut im transatlantischen Vergleich

Is Occupational Mobility in Germany Hampered by the Dual Vocational System? The Results of a British-German Comparison

We compare occupational mobility in Germany and Britain and focus on the effects of the German dual vocational system. Based on a comparison of mobility rates for different occupations within each country and between the two countries, we find that mobility is particularly low in German apprenticeship occupations and conclude that the dual system impedes occupational changes. However, German mobility ...

Der Zusammenhang zwischen Steuerlast- und Einkommensverteilung