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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of … their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in Germany an important decision about which educational track to follow is … analyse the association between parents? education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent …

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Class Size, Education, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian; Rajah, Najma; van Soest, Arthur - 2002

This paper examines the effects of class size on the decision to stay on in full time schooling at the age of 16 and on wages at later stages in life. Little research exists on the effect of school quality on career decisions, although it has potentially important long term implications. We use...

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The effect of expansions in maternity leave coverage on children's long-term outcomes

Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2008

labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze … the reforms by comparing outcomes of children born shortly before and shortly after a change in maternity leave … support for the hypothesis that an expansion in maternity leave legislation improves children's outcomes. Given the precision …

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Language Proficiency and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in the UK

Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2000

This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as...

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Revisiting the German wage structure

Dustmann, Christian; Ludsteck, Johannes; Schönberg, Uta - 2007

This paper challenges the view that the wage structure in West-Germany has remained stable throughout the 80s and 90s. Based on a 2 % sample of social security records, we show that wage inequality has increased in the 1980s, but only at the top of the distribution. In the early 1990s, wage...

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Career progression, economic downturns and skills

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

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