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This paper examines whether the strictness of employment protection legislation encourages employers to contract out work to their own paid employees by the formula of dependent self-employment, while making transitions to independent selfemployment less likely by altering the relative valuation of risk between salaried work and selfemployment in favour of the former. In conducting this analysis, discrete ...
In:
Small Business Economics
37 (2011), 3, 363-392
| Concepción Román, Emilio Congregado, José Maria Millán
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2004,
| Laura Romeu Gordo
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In:
Applied Economics
38 (2006), 20, 2335-2350
| Laura Romeu Gordo
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German fertility trends show that the average age at which women have their first child has increased in recent decades. Moreover, researchers have argued that delayed maternity is an important factor in reduced fertility. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper contributes to the debate about maternity timing and reduced fertility in Germany by analyzing some of the factors ...
In:
Feminist Economics
15 (2009), 4, 57-75
| Laura Romeu Gordo
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Berlin:
Deutsches Zentrum für Altersfragen (DZA),
2010,
(DZA Diskussionspapier Nr. 51)
| Laura Romeu Gordo, Antje Mertens
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 173)
| Laura Romeu Gordo, Andreas Motel-Klingebiel, Susanne Wurm
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We study the impact of rapid technological change on age and cohort variation in type of work and wages among German men for the 1986–2006 period. Using a task-based approach, we analyze the consequences that technological progress had on changes in the distribution of tasks performed by the men and the relative wages they received. Technological changes implied fewer physically demanding job tasks ...
In:
Labour Economics
22 (2013), June 2013, 61-69
| Laura Romeu Gordo, Vegard Skirbekk
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In:
International Journal for Equity in Health
3 (2004), 4,
| Ulrich Ronellenfitsch, Oliver Razum
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This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings in the Swedish labor market. In the field experiment job applicants were randomly given different information about their type and level of leisure sport being engaged in. Applications which signal sport skills have a significantly higher callback ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2010,
(IZA DP No. 4684)
| Dan-Olaf Rooth
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Prague:
Department of Political Sociology at the Institute of Sociology of the Acamdemy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
2014,
(Working Paper)
| Michaela Röschová, Pat Lyons