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Although part-time employment often appears as a substandard form of employment, evidence that part-time employees are less satisfied than full-time employees is ambiguous. To shed more light on this puzzle, I test an extended discrepancy theory framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The results help explain previous inconsistent findings: Part-time employment increases the chances ...
In:
British Journal of Industrial Relations
52 (2014), 3, 445-469
| Anja Iseke
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Although prosperity and a fair distribution of life chances belong to the constitutional socio-political aims in modern societies, we can observe that considerable distributional differences of material and immaterial resources still exist. To prevent or reduce social inequality the state can firstly try to establish equal conditions, and/or secondly equal achievements. How well the implementation ...
In:
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie
35 (2009), 3, 501-523
| Bettina Isengard
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In:
Social Indicators Research
82 (2007), 1, 35-56
| Bettina Isengard, Thorsten Schneider
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This study analyzes the relationship of individual risk attitudes and occupational sorting with respect to occupational earnings risk. By using the German Mikrozensus, a precise measure for earnings risk is computed as the occupation-wide standard deviation of wages. Following the procedure proposed by Bonin (2007), this earnings risk measure is used as dependent variable in cross-sectional and panel ...
Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Department of Economics, Technische Universität Dortmund, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Department of Economics and Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI),
2010,
(Ruhr Economic Papers #187)
| Ingo E. Isphording
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Linguistic distance, i.e. the dissimilarity between languages, is an important factor influencing international economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and increasing transaction costs. To measure these costs, we suggest using a new measure of linguistic distance. The Levenshtein distance is an easily computed and transparent ...
In:
Review of International Economics
21 (2013), 2, 354-369
| Ingo E. Isphording, Sebastian Otten
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There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for economic and social integration in the destination country. This study aims at quantifying the influence ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
105 (2014), September 2014, 30-50
| Ingo E. Isphording, Sebastian Otten
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Bamberg and Göttingen:
University of Bamberg, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences and University of Göttingen, Institute for Sociology,
2009,
(flexCAREER Working Paper)
| Annika Jabsen, Sandra Buchholz
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Colchester:
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER),
2008,
(ISER Working Paper No. 2008-14)
| Annette Jäckle
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Munich:
Ifo Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich,
2007,
(ifo Working Papers No. 43)
| Robert Jäckle
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This paper complements previous studies on the effects of health on wages by addressing the problems of unobserved heterogeneity, sample selection, and endogeneity in one comprehensive framework. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find the health variable to suffer from measurement error and a number of tests provide evidence that selection corrections are necessary. Good health ...
In:
Journal of Human Resources
45 (2010), 2, 364-406
| Robert Jäckle, Oliver Himmler