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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany

Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002

the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents …

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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...

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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons: indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits

Stichnoth, Holger - 2009

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability …. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Coneus, Katja - 2007

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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS

Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 2008

well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk (MARS), an epidemiological …

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The Effect of Early Noncognitive Skills on Social Outcomes in Adolescence

Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred - 2008

epidemiological cohort study of 384 children at risk from the Rhine-Neckar Region in Germany. Our results indicate that noncognitive …

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Intergenerational transmission of human capital in early childhood

Coneus, Katja; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2009

It is a well-known fact that the level of parents' education is strongly correlated with the educational achievement of … their children. In this paper,we shed light on the potential channels through which human capital is transmitted from … mothers to their children in early childhood. The main channels through which maternal human capital benefits the child …

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Education and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Review of the Empirical Literature

Weber, Andrea Maria; Ammermüller, Andreas - 2003

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the link between education and wage inequality in Germany. The wage inequality is characterized by its stability, although a more detailed analysis reveals structural differences, especially between East and West Germany. Both the between and...

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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the...

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