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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017
outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra cursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685140
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Additional career assistance and educational outcomes for students in lower track secondary schools
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2017
outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra cursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778191
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Quasi-experimental evidence on the effects of mother tongue-based education on reading skills and early labour market outcomes
Argaw, Bethlehem A. - 2016
Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436069
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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation : evidence for the first 11 years of life
Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - 2010
during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961553
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Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapitaltheoretischer Überlegungen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2008
In der folgenden Studie möchten wir ausgewählte Aspekte von intra- und intergenerationalen Umverteilungseffekten im System der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf der Basis der Humankapitalheorie mit Simulationsmethoden analysieren. Falls es das Ziel der Politik ist, die Ungleichheit des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003650247
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Earnings prospects for people with migration background in Germany
Aldashev, Alisher (contributor);  … - 2007
Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003480018
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Earnings prospects for people with migration background in Germany
Aldashev, Alisher (contributor);  … - 2007
Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003527626
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Education, gender and earnings in France and Germany : level and dispersion effects
Lauer, Charlotte (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002137177
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for … reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation … transition until 2080. If policy aims at reducing the inequality of lifetime income among people of the same generation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732726
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003828231