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Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Coneus, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers

Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

The 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 in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place....

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on … the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …

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Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Gernandt, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

The paper investigates the evolution of wages and wage inequality in Germany based on samples from the German Socio … between 1984 and 1994 in West Germany and the wage distribution was fairly stable. Between 1994 and 2005 average wages … increased by 7 percent in West Germany and 18 percent in East Germany. In this period wage inequality, measured by the ratio of …

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

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Training and individual performance in Europe: evidence from microeconometric studies

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...

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Technological change and skill obsolescence: the case of German apprenticeship training

Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...

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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with samples from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) demonstrate that … wage differential of 7 percent for women and non for men. Implications for wage policy are discussed. …

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