Summary information

Study title

Employment Wishes and Employment Practices of Women in Eastern and Western Germany

Creator

Beckmann, Petra (Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesanstalt für Arbeit (IAB), Nürnberg )

Study number / PID

ZA3060, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.3060 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

The occupational situation or employment wishes of women in different education situations. Topics: The following questions were addressed to all: school degree; type and time of vocational training certificate; subject of job title on the degree certificate; year of first employment; designation of first regular employment; current employment. Those never employed were asked: desire for employment and current search for work; length of search for work; preference for full-time or part-time employment; type of activities in search for work; number of positions offered by the employment office and number of applications not mediated by the employment office; intensity of search for work; regional mobility and interest in further education to increase the chances of job; work orientation and most important reasons for employment (scale); importance of areas of life (scale). The employed were asked: exact information about occupational activity in primary occupation; current occupational position; area of business affiliation of current company with which employed; superior function and span of control; decision-making authority in hiring, paying and promotion of employees; temporary or unlimited terms of employment; social security through employment; time worked each week per employment contract; actual time worked each week; full-time or part-time position, measured on union working hours; frequency and extent of overtime; desire for more overtime; overtime pay or leisure time compensation; frequency of Saturday work; reasons for Saturday work; desire for frequent Saturday work; interest in work on Saturdays; frequency and reasons for Sunday work; desire for increased work on Sundays; frequency of shift work and night work; information on variability of working hours; number of work days per week; desire for more flexibility of working hours; preferred measures for flexibility of working hours; employment as necessity to earn money; length of entire employment;...
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Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

10/1995 - 12/1995

Country

Germany

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample (Random-Route according to ADM mastersample)

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Oral survey with standardized questionnaire

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1998

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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