This study examines how within-couple inequalities, that is power differences between men and women in a partnership, act as predictors of transitions from full-time to part-time employment applying Heckman corrected probit models in three different institutional and cultural contexts; Eastern...

This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how...

This article investigates the impact of continuing education and training for adults on labour market performance in Germany, Denmark, and the United Kingdom. The central hypothesis is that training outcomes differ across countries, and that this heterogeneity in outcomes is due to institutional...

Kognitive Lernpotenziale, die sich nicht in den Schulleistungen widerspiegeln, bleiben auch beim Übergang von der Schule in die Ausbildung unentdeckt. Jugendliche mit Hauptschulabschluss müssen gute Schulnoten vorweisen, um auf dem Ausbildungsmarkt eine Chance zu haben. Jugendliche mit...