The Impact of Losing Your Job : Unemployment and Influences From Market, Family, and State on Economic Well-Being in the US and Germany

Autor: Martin Ehlert

Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made re-entering the labour market even

Keine Zukunft, keine Weiterbildung? Zur Erklärung von Länderunterschieden im Effekt von Tätigkeiten auf die Weiterbildungsbeteiligung

Autor: Martin Ehlert

Publikováno v: KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
suppl. 1
Berufe und soziale Ungleichheit

Access to further training among adults on the labor market is unequally distributed. In particular, workers in occupations that are likely to be replaced by machines in the future participate less in training. This is mainly because of the job tasks

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-020-00676-1

Improving Formal Qualifications or Firm Linkages-What Supports Successful School-to-Work Transitions among Low-Achieving School Leavers in Germany?

Autor: Anne Christine Holtmann, Heike Solga, Laura Menze, Martin Ehlert

Publikováno v: European Sociological Review

Many countries have implemented youth (un)employment programmes for low-achieving young people to improve their employment prospects. In Germany, these youths are often channelled into prevocational programmes to prevent them from long-term ‘scars�

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https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248116

Applying to college: Do information deficits lower the likelihood of college-eligible students from less-privileged families to pursue their college intentions?

Autor: Martin Ehlert, Claudia Finger, Heike Solga, Alessandra Rusconi

Publikováno v: Social Science Research. 67:193-212

Information deficits are considered an important source of why students from less-privileged families do not enroll in college, even when they are college-eligible and intend to go to college. In this paper, we examine whether correct and detailed in

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.04.005

Couples’ Strategies after Job Loss in West Germany and the United States – The Added Worker Effect and Linked Life Courses

Autor: Martin Ehlert

Publikováno v: Schmollers Jahrbuch. 135:55-65

In couple households, income losses due to men’s displacements may be offset by an increase in women’s earnings, the so called “Added Worker Effect” (AWE). I argue that previous research largely neglected the variation of the AWE due to intra

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