This paper investigates the role that discrimination plays in the educational marginalizationof foreign youth commonly observed in European countries with a long guestworkertradition. Economic theory offers two basic explanations for discrimination ofthis form: taste-based discrimination arising...

This paper analyses the intergenerational income mobility for natives and immigrants inSwitzerland. An IV approach based on data from two different data sets is used. As there is noadequate data on fathers, I revert to information from a period that differs from actual fathers’work period....

Arbeitsverträge können danach unterschieden werden, ob sie befristet oder unbefristet sind. Mit der wachsenden Bedeutung befristeter Arbeitsverträge hat auch die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit dieser Beschäftigungsform zugenommen.1Diese Studie widmet sich unter Zuhilfenahme von...

This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international companyto study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two performancerelated remuneration mechanisms. One is an individual "surprise" bonus payment. The other isa more structured...