Showing 1 - 10 of 37
overall extent, of ethnic inclusion and exclusion. Focussing on foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada as illustrative … market institutions benefit low-skill migrants, but generate less earnings assimilation. Such assimilation in Canada is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009668123
In education policy, as in many other policy fields, well-designed policy reforms may fail to get enacted because policymakers may suddenly become confronted with a public backlash against their reform agenda. Thus, understanding the dynamics of public opinion is important in order to be able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070354
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196201
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224912
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010194055
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010203769
The German secondary school stream-system has three levels: minimum (Hauptschule), general (Realschule), and university-entry (Gymnasium). Using the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we examine determinants of school attainment of German and foreign pupils in West Germany 1984-1993 using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208813
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817580
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011369816
East and West Germany. For many years, in particular from the late fifties through the mid-seventies, fertility patterns in …-seventies, total fertility in the East increased relative to the West. Subsequently, fertility decreased during the final years of the … GDR and then plummeted shortly after Unification. Today the popular expectation is that East German fertility will rebound …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010208812