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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education
On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show that an increase in regional unemployment by 1% decreases the returns to education by 0.005 percentage points. This implies that higher skilled employees are better sheltered from labour market changes with respect to their jobs but encounter larger wage changes than less skilled employees. Differences in regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We use representative individual data and regional panel variation in unemployment between different German regions and for different employee groups. We demonstrate that our results are robust with respect to aggregation bias, time lags and potential endogeneity of the unemployment variable
Positional Income Concerns: Prevalence and Relationship with Personality and Economic Preferences
Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany: The Importance of Heterogeneity and Attrition Bias
Flexible working and unpaid overtime in the UK: The role of gender, parental and occupational status
Recent studies have shown that flexible boundaries between work and family may make employees
work harder and longer. Yet most studies were not able to show whether there are differences across
different types of flexible working arrangements, and whether this relationship may only hold for
certain groups of workers. We examine how three different types of flexible working arrangements,
that is schedule control, flexitime, and teleworking, are associated with an increase in unpaid overtime
hours of workers in the UK using the Understanding Society data from 2010-2015 and fixed effects
panel regression models. Results show that the flexible arrangements that were introduced primarily for
work-life balance purposes, i.e., flexitime and teleworking, do not necessarily increase unpaid overtime
hours significantly. On the other hand, workers’ control over their schedule, mainly introduced as a part
of high-performance strategies, leads to increased unpaid overtime hours. This is especially true for
professional men, and women without children, especially those working full-time, and surprisingly
part-time working mothers. The results of this study point to the importance of distinguishing between
different groups of workers as well as between different types of arrangements when examining
outcomes of flexible working. Furthermore, the results of the study contribute to the argument that
performance enhancing flexible working arrangements can potentially exacerbate gender inequalities
in the labour market by enabling men to commit more time to their jobs, while for women, especially
full-time working mothers, this may be less possible
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A Characterization of C(X) Among Algebras on Planar Sets by the Existence of a Finite Universal Korovkin System.
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