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A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2010
questionnaires, approximately 13% of young people in Germany between the ages of 17 and 19 are disconnected. The percentage of …
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008 - Revised version
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues...
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Self-productivity in early childhood
Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2007
investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630292
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Wage convergence and inequality after unification : (East) Germany in transition
Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
Germany, who lived in East Germany in 1989, with groups of West German statistical twin workers, all taken from the Socio …. Wages of migrants to West Germany equal the ones of their West German statistical twins. We conclude that labor markets in … East and West Germany are still characterized by wage differences but that the degree of inequality in both regions …
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Assessing intergenerational earnings persistence among German workers
Eisenhauer, Philipp; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008 - This version: May 1, 2008
In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates an...
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