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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of social origin as well as of expectations regarding the labour market outcome of a higher education degree and of public educational policy are examined. The estimations are based...

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297379

Returns to education in West Germany: an empirical assessment

Lauer, Charlotte; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997. Based on simple Mincer-type wage equations, we estimate a return of about 8% for men and 10% for women, and these returns have remained remarkably stable over the period. On the...

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Gender wage gap in West Germany: how far do gender differences in human capital matter?

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable wage differential in favour of men and its reduction since the mid-eighties among West German full-time employees in the private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297669

Private Erträge von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland

Steiner, Viktor; Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

Wir analysieren die Entwicklung der Bildungsrenditen in Westdeutschland in der Periode von 1984 bis 1997 auf der Basis der Humankapitaltheorie mit Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels. Die Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen mit etwa 10% eine signifikant höhere durchschnittliche...

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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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Intergenerational Poverty Dynamics in Poland: Family Background and Children's Educational Attainment During Transition

Lauer, Charlotte; Beblo, Miriam - 2002

In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through …. The results show that children´s education is strongly related to household structure, parents´ education, city size, and … region of residence. Household income and the parents´ labour market situation have only a weak, though significant, effect …

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Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany, relying on a theoretical model imbedded in the human capital theory. In a second step, the educational process is decomposed into school and post-school achievement. The same...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298109

A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

This paper aims at formulating a theoretical model of educational attainment which is directly implementable empirically. The conceptual frame-work relies on the human capital theory, where individuals weigh the costs and the returns of education to decide on the optimal amount of education they...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298115

Educational attainment: a French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2001

This documentation analyses the structure of educational attainment in France and Germany. While France and Germany share in many respects similar socioeconomic structures, they sharply differ with respect to their educational system. First, the three-tiered secondary school system in Germany,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300923