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In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document … increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent … inequalities from the previous generation, this has hindered social mobility. We also highlight three important aspects that to …
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documented, little is known about their interaction with employees' mobility behaviour. This paper contributes to this research … area by analyzing the interaction between job mobility and entry wage differentials using German administrative data. The … occupation. Moreover, job mobility tends to reduce the effects of labour market entry conditions, implying that job mobility …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
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This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit … driver of rising wage inequality amongst graduates over time. …
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Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be … 2011. Our analysis shows that Euroskepticism has increased by on third during the financial crisis, while income inequality … cultural identity and financial expectations and by large unrelated to economic background variables like income inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010748385
Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be … 2011. Our analysis shows that Euroskepticism has increased by on third during the financial crisis, while income inequality … cultural identity and financial expectations and by large unrelated to economic background variables like income inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333236
We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in these two countries: subject of degree explains about...
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In this paper, we discuss the quest for more and more education and its implications for social mobility. We document … increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent … inequalities from the previous generation, this has hindered social mobility. We also highlight three important aspects that to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279293
This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262307