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Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...
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geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place … careers provides an important methodological advance. In addition, it emphasises the importance of mobility and immobility and …
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geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place … careers provides an important methodological advance. In addition, it emphasises the importance of mobility and immobility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399837
In this paper, the relation between income inequality and population growth is analized from a Darwinian perspective. A Markov chain population growth model is presented and estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We estimate both population growth rates and...
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In this paper, the relation between income inequality and population growth is analized from a Darwinian perspective. A Markov chain population growth model is presented and estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We estimate both population growth rates and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397092
In US-amerikanischen Studien verschiedener Disziplinen hat sich zur Analyse der sprachlichen Komplexität von Vornamen seit einigen Jahren die so genannte Scrabble-Score-Analyse etabliert. Wie im bekannten Scrabble-Spiel Wörtern nach bestimmten Regeln Punktewerte zugeordnet werden, wird bei...
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to analyze the dynamics of class mobility over time. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the "social space", we argue … class mobility reveals that the horizontal axis is even more stable over time. Most mobility occurs along the vertical axis … of the social space, while there is only little horizontal mobility indicating that individuals rarely change their …
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residential mobility, access to modes of public and private transport, and changes in the availability of modern communications … technologies using the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP). All forms of mobility have increased over time and are negatively … associated with visiting neighbours. With further increases in mobility, close neighbours may become less relevant. Nevertheless …
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-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility. Based on … compute earnings mobility. The predicted components together with the institutional OECD data are used in a non-linear least … squares setting to estimate the relationship between permanent inequality, transitory inequality and earnings mobility, and …
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in mobility, whereas only in three countries the increase in mobility is determined by the decrease in inequality. …
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