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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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How does experience and job mobility determine wage gain in a transition and a non-transition economy? : the case of east and west Germany
Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
"This paper studies individual log real wage change of east and west Germans over the period 1990/91 to 1995/96 using data from the German Socio-economic Panel. Parameters are estimated by median regression. Human capital theory and job mobility theories have implications for wage changes that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537171
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How does experience and job mobility determine wage gain in a transition and a non-transition economy? : the case of east and west Germany
Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006
"This paper studies individual log real wage change of east and west Germans over the period 1990/91 to 1995/96 using data from the German Socio-economic Panel. Parameters are estimated by median regression. Human capital theory and job mobility theories have implications for wage changes that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592449
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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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Direct job creation in Germany revisited: Is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"Bringing welfare recipients into jobs is a major goal of German labour market policy since a reform of the year 2005. Direct job creation providing participants with temporary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691828
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Direct job creation in Germany revisited: Is it effective for welfare recipients and does it matter whether participants receive a wage?
Hohmeyer, Katrin; Wolff, Joachim - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"Bringing welfare recipients into jobs is a major goal of German labour market policy since a reform of the year 2005. Direct job creation providing participants with temporary subsidized jobs mainly in the non-profit sector plays an important role for achieving this goal. There are three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592390
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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