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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2019
This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981368
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Pisa : What Makes the Difference? Explaining the Gap in Pisa Test Scores between Finland and Germany
Ammermueller, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071300
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Parental unemployment and the transition into tertiary education : can institutions moderate the adverse effects?
Lindemann, Kristina; Gangl, Markus - 2018
This paper examines how parental unemployment affects the transition to postsecondary education in different institutional contexts. Drawing on theoretical perspectives in intergenerational mobility research and sociology of higher education, we estimate the extent to which these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011869485
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214808
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Are recessions good for educational attainment?
Ochsen, Carsten - 2010
children. Using data for Germany, we find that an economic downturn, coupled with increased unemployment, affects children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825074
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Locus of control and investment in training
Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016
This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591440
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197409
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727241
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Risk attitudes and wage growth : replication and reconstruction
Budria, Santi; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2009 - This draft: March 18, 2009
risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635168
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Kick it like Özil? : decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. -- Migration ; education ; human capital ; Germany ; tracking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681447