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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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Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze micro-census data … first time for Germany in such detail. The data indicate an educational expansion, especially for women in West Germany … degree subjects in West than in East Germany, especially for women …
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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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Human capital contracts give private investors the right to a share of students' future earnings in return for a fi nancial contribution during their studies. Although still rarely used, human capital contracts could not only help to complement limited public funding for higher education but...
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We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...
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An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial …. Regional differentials in non-pecuniary assets slightly contribute to spatial sorting processes in Germany. Such differences in … unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …
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conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …
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Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers have 22 percent more years of schooling—the indicator used for … individual and parental human capital influence short-run integration outcomes in Germany, while work experience in the home …
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This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of new born firms' initial size. As survival prospects of young firms tend to be linked to a firm's start-up size, a better understanding of the factors influencing start-up size is crucial. Most of the rare literature on initial firm size focuses...
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