Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from England
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 120, Heft 542, S. F52-F71
ISSN: 1468-0297
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In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 120, Heft 542, S. F52-F71
ISSN: 1468-0297
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 1-16
ISSN: 1467-9485
Abstract The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978),claims that married women in smaller labour markets have a higher risk of workingin jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual jobsearch for couples which is much more difficult to optimize than single job search.Here, for several reasons husbands tend to first optimize their individual job search.Their wives are `tied movers' or `tied stayers' in the sense that their job search isundertaken under the condition that the job search of their husbands is optimized.This leads especially in smaller labour markets to a higher risk of a mismatchbetween formal qualifications and job requirements. The only specific empiricaltest of this theory, until now, has been performed by McGoldrick and Robst (1996). Their results, using US data, do not support the theory. Using Germanpanel data (GSOEP), we also test the theory of differential overqualification.Unlike previous studies we control for commuting distances and our own resultsprovide some mixed support for the differential overqualification hypothesis.
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 511
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 4517
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In: Homeownership and the Labour Market in Europe, S. 160-183
In: Homeownership and the Labour Market in Europe, S. 224-248
In: The economic journal: the journal of the Royal Economic Society, Band 118, Heft 527, S. 311-328
ISSN: 1468-0297
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In: Journal of economic studies, Band 29, Heft 2, S. 131-149
ISSN: 1758-7387
This paper exploits a unique data set to explore the importance of key contractual characteristics on the duration of employment tenure. The paper recognises the insights of the human capital and job‐matching approaches in informing discussion on employment tenure. Nevertheless, this paper argues that features of the contractual arrangements between employer and employee have been under‐emphasised. The paper demonstrates that key features of contracts such as job security develop simultaneously with tenure. A clear lock‐in effect is observed in the results.
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