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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany

Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely...

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Cognitive Abilities and Labour Market Outcomes

Anger, Silke; Heineck, Guido - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

We contribute to the literature on the relationship between cognitive abilities and labour market outcomes providing first evidence for Germany. In particular, cross-sectional data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) are used, which include two measures of cognitive ability, one test of...

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Erfassung kognitiver Leistungspotentiale Erwachsener im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)

Schupp, Jürgen; Herrmann, Sabrina; Jaensch, Peter; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Im Erhebungsjahr 2006 wurden erstmals in einer Teilstichprobe des SOEP kognitive Kurztests durchgeführt. Ziel war es, ein robustes, von geschulten Interviewern leicht zu administrierendes Instrumentarium einzusetzen, das innerhalb weniger Minuten durchführbar ist. Annähernd 80 % aller zur...

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Kognitionspotenziale Jugendlicher: Ergänzung zum Jugendfragebogen der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) ; Methodenbericht und Variablendokumentation

Schupp, Jürgen; Hermann, Sabrina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Im Jahr 2006 wurde erstmals ein Kognitionstest für Jugendliche in das Erhebungsinstrumentarium des SOEP aufgenommen und seitdem jährlich bei einer neuen Jugendkohorte durchgeführt. Ein speziell modellierter Fragebogen erfasst basierend auf dem I-S-T 2000-Test die fluiden...

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Risks and Returns to Educational Fields: A Financial Asset Approach to Vocational and Academic Education

Glocker, Daniela; Storck, Johanna - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Applying a financial assets approach, we analyze the returns and earnings risk of investments into different types of human capital. Even though the returns from investing in human capital are extensively studied, little is known about the properties of the returns to different types of human...

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Can Minimum Prices Assure the Quality of Professional Services?

Meran, Georg; Schwarze, Reimund - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

This papers studies the effects on service quality and consumer surplus of a minimum price which is fixed by a bureaucratic non-monopolistic professional association. It shows that the price floor set by a Niskanen-type professional assocation will maximize consumer surplus only if consumers...

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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

relevant is the quality of the training received (i.e. ranking of institution and supervisor) and the research environment in …

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The Earnings Returns to Graduating with Honors: Evidence from Law Graduates

Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014

This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent earnings. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, few studies have analyzed returns at the very top of the education distribution. We highlight the...

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Zur Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen in Spitzengremien der Wirtschaft: Ursachen und Handlungsansätze

Holst, Elke; Wiemer, Anita - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The paper proceeds from the assumption that the inequalities of opportunity between men and women on the labor market and in society overall tend to consolidate in the management bodies of large companies. The predominance of men on the supervisory boards of Germany's largest private sector...

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Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score

Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German ….e. days of training, to the individual post-treatment employment probability (the response). The dose-response function is … planned training durations as treatment variables: If only actual durations are observed, treatment effect estimates may be …

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