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significantly higher incomes. This income gain can be explained by faster transitions out of low-paid agricultural work. Differences … displacement considerably weakens the intergenerational transmission of human capital between fathers and children, especially at …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital...
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populations, while income differentials are relatively unimportant in understanding the nativity wealth gap. In contrast, the …
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Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we … investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with … the market price of the object under consideration. Our estimation results suggest that economics students have both, a …
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