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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany

Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019

We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...

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Education and early career outcomes of second-generation immigrants in France

Belzil, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

-Generation Immigrants whose parents are born in Africa and French-natives. We find that schooling attainments explain around two thirds of …

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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...

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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

The paper investigates determinants of formal and non-formal continuous vocational training and its income effects … on income are rather small or equal to zero with the self-employed and rather high among employed workers, both in the … group of trainees and non-trainees. Non-formal training has a non-zero effect on income as well. The determinants of income …

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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 …

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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

Longitudinal Survey of Youths which we follow from 16 to 28. We discuss the evolution of family income and ability effects where … component correlated with family income and background variables. We find that the individual cognitive-technical ability … differential prevailing at 16 was increasing with income in the early 80's but much less so in the early 2000's. We find no …

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The evolution of inequality in education trajectories and graduation outcomes in the US

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2022

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Training and individual performance in Europe: evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000

Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...

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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2008

Um Hinweise für die Erträge von Investitionen in die Fähigkeiten von Kindern im Vorschulalter geben zu können, möchten wir in diesem Beitrag die Ergebnisse von Simulationen zur Diskussion stellen. Der Humankapitalerwerb wird als Funktion von kognitiven und nichtkognitiven Fähigkeiten...

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Self-productivity in early childhood

Coneus, Katja (contributor); Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor) - 2007

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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