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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data

Huebener, Mathias; Kühnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child …

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Pisa : What Makes the Difference? Explaining the Gap in Pisa Test Scores between Finland and Germany

Ammermüller, Andreas - 2008

The huge difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany … scores than Finnish students. The results imply that early streaming in Germany penalizes students in lower school types and … school types. Overall, the variation in test scores can be explained much better by the observable characteristics in Germany …

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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development : Evidence from MARS

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...

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Skill Formation, Career Planning, and Transitions : The Last Two Years in a German Lower Track Secondary School

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie - 2014

In Germany, the entry into the labor market for students in the nonacademic tracks of secondary schools may take …

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Globalisierung, Wettbewerb und Bildungspolitik

Weise, Christian - 2000

"Wettbewerb" und "Bildungspolitik" stehen in zweifacher Hinsicht im Zusammenhang: Erstens erfordert der internationale …

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Human Capital Investment Strategies in Europe

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2011

The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...

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Employment and human capital investment intentions among recent refugees in Germany

Haan, Peter; Kroh, Martin; Troutman, Kent - 2017

representative longitudinal study of all refugees reported on administrative records in Germany - and analyse which determinants and …

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Training, Mobility, and Wages : Specific Versus General Human Capital

Garloff, Alfred - 2008

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2009

It is a well-known fact that the level of parents' education is strongly correlated with the educational achievement of their children. In this paper,we shed light on the potential channels through which human capital is transmitted from mothers to their children in early childhood. The main...

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The impact of the length of schooling on the timing of family formation

Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - 2020

the introduction of short school years in Germany in 1966-67, which compressed the education phase without affecting the …

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