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Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

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Mother's Autonomy and Child Welfare: A New Measure and Some New Evidence

Chakraborty, Tanika; De, Prabal K. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … autonomy and welfare outcomes. We argue that omitted variables that may drive education and autonomy are likely to be …

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The Determinants of Church Attendance and Religious Human Capital in Germany: Evidence from Panel Data

Heineck, Guido - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

This paper explores determinants of church attendance and the formation of 'religious human capital' in Germany within a Becker-style allocation-of-time framework. The analysis is based on data derived from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Taking advantage of the longitudinal structure...

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Short Term Living Conditions and Long Term Prospects of Immigrant Children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

In Germany the foreign born population is made up of foreigners and so called ”ethnic Germans” who migrated from eastern European countries to Germany. While the first group is confronted with problems arising from the typical German concept of ethnicity and citizenship, the latter are...

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Human Capital Externalities: Evidence from the Transition Economy of Russia

Muravyev, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper tests for the existence of human capital externalities, more precisely those stemming from higher education …, using a micro-level approach: the Mincerian wage regression augmented with the average level of education in a local … geographical area (city). To solve identification problems arising due to endogeneity of average education the study exploits a …

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Die Dauer vorschulischer Betreuungs- und Bildungserfahrungen: Ergebnisse auf der Basis von Paneldaten

Büchner, Charlotte; Spieß, C. Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, welche Faktoren damit in Zusammenhang stehen, wie viele Jahre ein Kind vor Schuleintritt eine Betreuungs- und Bildungseinrichtung besucht und ob die Dauer des Besuchs von Kindertageseinrichtungen mit dem späteren Schultyp in Ver-bindung steht. Die empirische...

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Long-Term Care Insurance and Carers' Labor Supply: A Structural Model

Geyer, Johannes; Korfhage, Thorben - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

In Germany, individuals in need of long-term care receive support through benefits of the long-term care insurance. A central goal of the insurance is to support informal care provided by family members. Care recipients can choose between benefits in kind (formal home care services) and benefits...

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Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime

Pannenberg, Markus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...

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Demographic Change, Endogenous Labor Supply and the Political Feasibility of Pension Reform

Breyer, Friedrich; Stolte, Klaus - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...

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