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The determinants of high school closures: lessons from longitudinal data throughout Illinois
Billger, Sherrilyn M.; Beck, Frank D. - 2009
Facing substantial financial pressure, many districts close schools in order to preserve solvency and improve student outcomes. Using a new longitudinal data set on all non-Cook County Illinois schools, we examine the determinants of high school closure decisions from 1991 through 2005. Our...
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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland
Bonin, Holger; Arnds, Pascal - 2003
Germany faces a demographic aging process which affects the working-age population first. This paper surveys some …
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The working hours of immigrants in Germany: temporary versus permanent
Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - 2010
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in order to accumulate savings and invest in financial capital that can be transferred back to their...
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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: zwischen Strukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex
Eichhorst, Werner - 2007
Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsprobleme des deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nicht alle Schwierigkeiten überwunden. Für die Zukunft besteht die zentrale Herausforderung darin, eine...
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The optimal timing of school tracking
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo; Ariga, Kenn - 2004
tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …
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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany
Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Rusakova, Alina - 2012
entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …
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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. …
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
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Subjective Discount Rates, Intergenerational Transfers and the Return to Schooling
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 1999
Using a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions, we investigate the relationship between subjective discount rates and the labor market ability (the discount rate bias) on a panel taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Given household human capital and Armed Forces...
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Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View
de la Croix, David; Docquier, Frédéric - 2003
We evaluate the effect of technology, demographics and policy on the differential evolution of the skill premium and on the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of individuals, and endogenous education...
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