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Parental risk attitudes and children's secondary school track choice
Heineck, Guido; Wölfel, Oliver - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine whether parents' risk attitudes relate to … children's secondary school track choice in Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our … children's enrollment in upper secondary school." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592270
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Parental risk attitudes and children's secondary school track choice
Heineck, Guido; Wölfel, Oliver - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this literature and examine whether parents' risk attitudes relate to … children's secondary school track choice in Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our … children's enrollment in upper secondary school." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671529
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641637
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2012
"Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592265
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Information Asymmetry, Education Signals and the Case of Ethnic and Native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2009
This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (“Native Germans”). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034643
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Beschäftigung, Arbeit und Unternehmertum in deutschen Kleinbetrieben : Ergebnisse aus dem IAB-Betriebspanel 2010
Bechmann, Sebastian; Dahms, Vera; Fischer, Agnes; Frei, … - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"The IAB-Establishment Panel indicates that smaller companies differ from larger ones in several ways. Differences in the employee and owner structure are reflected in the fact that smaller establishments offer knowledge-intensive jobs less often than larger establishments do, are generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324030
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Recession Depression: Mental Health Effects of the 2008 Stock Market Crash
McInerney, Melissa; Mellor, Jennifer M.; Nicholas, … - CESifo - 2013
-being on health use identification strategies involving income increases; these studies as well as prior research on stock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877960
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of Ethnic and Native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background ('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973883
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of Ethnic and Native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background ('Native Germans'). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592476