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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592403
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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
, educational opportunities were at times 'actively managed' and allocated to children of less educated parents. What happened to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838234
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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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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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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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Income taxes, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital
Mendolicchio, Concetta; Paolini, Dimitri; Pietra, Tito - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
with a flat labor income tax. Under suitable restrictions on the parameters, a revenue neutral progressive change in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592413
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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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Income taxes, subsidies to education, and investments in human capital
Mendolicchio, Concetta; Paolini, Dimitri; Pietra, Tito - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
with a flat labor income tax. Under suitable restrictions on the parameters, a revenue neutral progressive change in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876213
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Verbunden über Generationen: Struktur und Ausmaß der intergenerationalen Einkommensmobilität in Deutschland (Structure and extent of intergenerational income mobility in Germany)...
Schnitzlein, Daniel - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"The paper examines the structure and the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Germany. Using data from the … intergenerational income elasticity is 0.26 for father-son pairs and 0.36 for father-daughter pairs. A more detailed analysis is carried … is some persistence at both ends of the income distribution, the results show a high level of intergenerational mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038432
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Verbunden über Generationen: Struktur und Ausmaß der intergenerationalen Einkommensmobilität in Deutschland (Structure and extent of intergenerational income mobility in Germany)...
Schnitzlein, Daniel - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008
"The paper examines the structure and the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Germany. Using data from the … intergenerational income elasticity is 0.26 for father-son pairs and 0.36 for father-daughter pairs. A more detailed analysis is carried … is some persistence at both ends of the income distribution, the results show a high level of intergenerational mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592468