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Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and achievement over the life cycle. The novelty of the paper is that it bonds two different, hitherto separated, research lines, one from economics, one from psychology, to discuss the relationship between childhood ...
In:
Sozialer Fortschritt
62 (2013), 5, 131-139
| Friedhelm Pfeiffer
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In:
Labour Economics
7 (2000), 5, 629-663
| Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Frank Reize
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In:
International Journal of Sociology
30 (2000), 3, 71-99
| Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Frank Reize
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Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) demonstrate that gregarious people more often work in ...
In:
Journal for Labour Market Research
45 (2012), 2, 147-159
| Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Johannes Schulz
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Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth questionnaires, approximately 13% of young people in Germany between the ages of 17 and 19 are disconnected. The percentage of disconnected youths has been on the rise since ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(SOEPpapers 291)
| Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Ruben R. Seiberlich
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Disconnectedness among young adults can have several dimensions. From a socioeconomic viewpoint, failure in school, unemployment and the lack of a partner are among the most important ones. In our sample of respondents to the SOEP Youth Questionnaire, approximately 13% of young people had been socio-economically disconnected at least once between the ages of 17 and 19. The percentage of disconnected ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch - Proceedings of the 9th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
131 (2011), 2, 253-262
| Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Ruben R. Seiberlich
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Tilburg:
2007,
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos
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This paper uses panel data from the UK (BHPS) and Germany (GSOEP) to investigate the wage effect of entering the labour market with a temporary job. Further than the previous literature that studied the effect of the contract type on wage dynamics in the explained part of a wage regression, we also investigate the effect of the starting contract on the variance of unobserved individual effects and ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 228)
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent and the human-capital determinants of low-wage mobility for labour market entrants in the UK and Germany. Design/methodology/approach – Using panel data for the UK (BHPS) and Germany (GSOEP), a competing-risks duration model is applied that allows the study of transitions from low pay to competing destination states: higher pay, self-employment, ...
In:
International Journal of Manpower
31 (2010), 5, 908-927
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Didier Fouarge
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 7th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2006), ed. by Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Grabka, Markus M. and Kroh, Martin)
127 (2007), 1, 47-58
| Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Didier Fouarge, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Jeroen K. Vermunt