The efficiency of the labour market critically depends on the design of its institutions with employment protection …

document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the … transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys … maintained high educational mobility, comparable to the levels during Soviet times. However, we find that the younger cohorts …

non-standard types of employment such as marginal employment. The model is estimated for both the number of workers and … total working hours using a new panel data set. For unskilled and skilled workers in full-time employment, we find labour … marginal employment range between -.4 (number of male workers in west Germany) to -1 (working hours for women). We illustrate …

This study analyzes the mobility between three labor market states: working in low paid jobs, working in higher paid … state dependence in non-employment. Moreover, I find evidence for a "low pay no pay cycle", i.e. being low paid or not …, being low paid does not have adverse effects on future employment prospects: the employment probability increases with low …

independently from education and that the results are not driven by workers' occupational mobility. …

Environmental employment is an issue with high interest to the public and to policy makers. Yet, the debate is blurred … by a great number of distinct definitions and hence estimates of environmental employment. Therefore it is essential to … carefully document delimitations and methods used in any attempt to quantify environmental employment. This paper presents a …

models this result generally holds. Furthermore, we find evidence for gender specific differences with respect to the effects …

In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a … relax these assumptions and find that employment levels would be 4-5% higher without the minimum wage in the East German … mean effect: employment losses are mostly borne by young construction workers, employees not covered by collective …

self-employment offers businesswomen a lucrative avenue with higher monetary rewards, albeit for a shorter spell. If … salaried businesswomen went into self-employment, they would receive considerably higher wages and for at least 30 years …. However, if self-employed businesswomen went into salaried jobs, their wages would decline, suggesting that it is the self-employment …