Based on brother correlations in permanent earnings for different groups of second generation immigrants, the findings in this paper indicate that cultural background is not a major determinant of the level of intergenerational economic mobility.
In:
Economics Letters
114 (2012), 3, S. 335-337
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
Konstanz:
Universität Konstanz,
2011,
25 S.
(Working Paper Series / University of Konstanz, Department of Economics ; 2011-13)
| Friedrich Breyer, Jan Marcus
In:
Matthias Wingens, Michael Windzio, Helga de Valk, Can Aybek (Eds.) ,
A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer
S. 143-164
| Ingrid Tucci
The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young adults with a migration background are in no way a negligible exception. However, the picture is different in the two countries: while in France more migrants' descendants manage to reach their (secondary?) ...
2011| Ingrid Tucci, Ariane Jossin, Carsten Keller, Olaf Groh-Samberg
Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other 'objective' factors on career achievement. In our study, we go a step further by also looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on differences in career chances. For the first time - to our knowledge - we compare managers and other white-collar employees in Germany's private sector and find evidence that personality ...
In:
Management Revue
22 (2011), 3, S. 240-273
| Simon Fietze, Elke Holst, Verena Tobsch
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them. In this paper we examine the impact of capabilities alongside choices on subjective and objective well-being. ...
This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise if an agent's reward expectation is not met. Throughout the experiment we record agents' heart rate variability. ...
2011| Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist