The paper addresses the driving forces behind recent changes in labour market outcomes among market entrants in Europe. Based on data for 12 European countries from the 1988-97 European Community Labour Force Surveys, the empirical analyses estimate panel data models to assess the effects of...

The study provides a comparative empirical analysis of the dynamics of unemployment in the United States and West Germany. Based on longitudinal data and recent microeconometric methods, the analysis discusses different explanations for both the higher inflow into as well as the higher outflow...

Trends in the gender gap in college completion for the U.S. and Germany show that the gender gap has closed in Germany as it has in the U.S., but, unlike the U.S., women have not yet achieved inequality in rates of tertiary degree attainment, let alone overtaken men. A central reason for this...

1 Structural Explanations for Inequality and Mobility in Bureaucratized Organizations -- I. The Structure of White-Collar Job Ladders -- 2 The Hierarchy of White-Collar Work -- 3 The Clerical—Administrative Boundary -- II. The Shaping of Recruitment and Promotion Policies for White-Collar Jobs...