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Moving Down: Women´s Part-time Work andOccupational Change in Britain 1991-2001

Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The UK´s Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the hidden braindrain when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for whichthey are qualified. These inferences were based on self-reporting...

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Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setbackfor Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975-2001

Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are theextensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work featuresmost prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly formore educated women, a...

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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact onEconomic Behavior

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models itsdeterminants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economicperformance...

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Migrant Ethnic Identity:Concept and Policy Implications

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprusundergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. Thepaper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Unionperspective...

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Job Satisfaction and Family Happiness:The Part-time Work Puzzle

Booth, Alison L.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-timework and working hours … satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account forinterdependence within the family using data on partnered men …

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Market Orientation and Gender Wage Gaps:An International Study

Zweimüller, Martina; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientationand gender wage differentials in international data. More market orientation might be relatedto gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in product and labor markets and thegeneral absence of...

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Acculturation Identity and Labor Market Outcomes

Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgroundsin Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Uniquefor this study is that identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturationframework based on both...

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Becoming an Entrepreneur

Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact onincome of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment andleadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non-parametricmatching estimator the paper alleviates...

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Die Situation der Kinder in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

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International Evidence on Well-being

Blanchflower, David G. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness and life satisfaction and consider whether these data will likely … be replaced by the U-index. e know little about the predictive power of the U-index. Happiness and life satisfaction data … to the happiness data the US ranks above France bI find that first, that there are many similarities. According to both …

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