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Is a Temporary Job Better than Unemployment?: A Cross-Country Comparison Based on British, German, and Swiss Panel Data
Gebel, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
While many previous studies on temporary work have found disadvantages for temporary workers as compared to workers with a permanent contract, this study compares temporary work to the alternative of unemployment. Specifically, this paper investigates the potential integrative power of taking up...
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What Determines the Duration of Stay of Immigrants in Germany?: Evidence from a Longitudinal Duration Analysis
Gundel, Sebastian; Peters, Heiko - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
We analyze the return-migration of German immigrants using the latest data of the German Socio- Economic Panel from … reveals that return migration is heavily influenced by country of origin. Individuals from countries with free labor movement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017461
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Unhappiness and Job Finding
Gielen, Anne C.; Ours, Jan C. van - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541302
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Benefit-Entitlement Effects and the Duration of Unemployment: An Ex-ante Evaluation of Recent Labour Market Reforms in Germany
Schmitz, Hendrik; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
We analyse benefit-entitlement effects and the likely impact of the recent reform of the unemployment compensation system on the duration of unemployment in Germany on the basis of a flexible discrete-time hazard rate model estimated on pre-reform data from the German Socioeconomic Panel. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017406
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
and ethnicity indicators exert on the probability to naturalize beyond the standard individual and human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069124
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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness': Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten Van - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
exit from selfemployment are associated with internal migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368913
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Migrant's Pursuit of Happiness: The Impact of Adaption, Social Comparison and Relative Deprivation; Evidence from a 'Natural' Experiment
Melzer, Silvia Maja; Muffels, Ruud J. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
to inquire the impact of migration on subjective well-being (SWB). The main goal of the research is to assessing the … migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818242
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Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile across Regions?
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896229
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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany
Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399837
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Leben außerhalb Deutschlands: eine Machbarkeitsstudie zur Realisierung von Auslandsbefragungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)
Schupp, Jürgen; Siegel, Nico A.; Erlinghagen, Marcel; … - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
A feasibility study concerning the implementation of interviews abroad within the framework of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). With the pilot study "Living outside Germany", the longitudinal German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) ventures into completely uncharted methodological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017374