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Cross-National Estimates of the Intergenerational Mobility in Earnings

Lillard, Dean R. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 51-58

This paper examines the similarity in the association between earnings of sons and fathers in Germany and the United States. It relaxes the log-linear functional form imposed in most studies of the intergenerational earnings association. Theory implies the relationship between earnings of...

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Affirmative action and university fit: Evidence from Proposition 209

Arcidiacono, Peter; Aucejo, Esteban; Coate, Patrick; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-29

better at graduating more-prepared students while other institutions are better at graduating less-prepared students and that … 209 led to a more efficient sorting of minority students, explaining 18% of the graduation rate increase in our preferred … specification. Further, there appears to have been behavioral responses to Prop 209, by universities and/or students, that explain …

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Soziale Einstellungen in der Organisationsgesellschaft: betriebliche Strukturen und die gerechte Verteilungsordnung der Gesellschaft

Liebig, Stefan; Krause, Alexandra - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 39 (2006) 2, pp. 255-276

This paper examines the significance of income and career chances in the firm for attitudes regarding social justice … the social structure of a society is first shown. This is justified by the fact that income and career chances in the firm … are to be understood as collective goods, with the consequence that mere membership of a firm opens up or closes income …

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Gender Effects As Macro-Level Effects: Germany and the United States 1991-1997

Amoroso, Lisa M. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 70 (2001) 1, pp. 128-134

My research examines within-nation differences as well as cross-national differences in socially stratified outcomes, specifically the distribution of household incomes. I build on the considerable empirical evidence suggesting that group memberships are important factors in shaping one' s life...

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Siblings, Their Sex Composition and Educational Attainment in Germany

Bauer, Thomas; Gang, Ira N. - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 215-221

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Occupational human capital and earnings losses of displaced workers: does the degree of similarity between pre- and post-displacement occupations matter?

Nawakitphaitoon, Kritkorn; Ormiston, Russell - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 48 (2015) 1, pp. 57-73

This paper examines the effect of accumulated human capital, and particularly occupational human capital, on the earnings losses of displaced workers. Unlike most of the previous studies of job displacement, this paper uses a continuous measure of occupational skills transferability to measure...

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Returns to Self-Employment Experience in the Wage and Salary Sector: A Comparative Analysis of Germany and the United States

Trzcinski, Eileen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 68 (1999) 2, pp. 177-183

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A Comparison of the Relationship between Obesity and Earnings in the U.S. and Germany

Cawley, John H.; Grabka, Markus M.; Lillard, Dean R. - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch 125 (2005) 1, pp. 119-129

from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (U.S.) and the German Socio-Economic Panel, instrumental variables models are …

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How Important Is the Family? Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the USA, Germany, and Denmark

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: Journal of Population Economics 27 (2014) 1, pp. 69-89

also plays an important role in explaining variations in family income, wages, education, and risk attitudes. …

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Better schools for Europe

Gundlach, Erich; Wößmann, Ludger - In: EIB Papers 6 (2001) 2, pp. 8-22

We try to identify which economic factors might be responsible for the large international differences in student performance. We present time series evidence for a number of European countries which suggests that rising educational expenditures obviously did not improve student performance....

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