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Maternity Leave and Its Consequences for Subsequent Careers in Germany

Franz, Nele E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who do not face a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic...

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Smoking and Returns to Education: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Reilich, Julia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...

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Educational Expansion and Its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers

Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

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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Who Leaves and When?: Selective Outmigration of Immigrants from Germany

Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

capital and outmigration. Finally, we discover substantial variation in emigration behaviour during the life-cycle. …

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Goodbye Germany - und dann?: Erste Ergebnisse einer Pilotstudie zur Befragung von Auswanderern aus Deutschland

Erlinghagen, Marcel; Stegmann, Tim - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

on emigration flows from Germany and the factors motivating people to emigrate. In particular, there is an almost total … that the German emigration research is currently based mainly on aggregated emigration data from official statistical … after the point of emigration creates new possibilities for empirical life-course research, which in turn - from an …

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Convergence or Divergence?: Immigrant Wage Assimilation Patterns in Germany

Zibrowius, Michael - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

Using a rich panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany as an example of a key European destination country. This study contributes to the literature by performing separate estimations by skill groups. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants'...

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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Maintaining (Locus of) Control?: Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages

Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

This paper establishes that individuals with an internal locus of control, i.e., who believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive effect only translates into labor income via the channel...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Occupational Preferences, Segregation, and Wage Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Three Countries

Eberharter, Veronika V. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

Based on longitudinal data (CNEF 1980-2010) the paper analyzes the structuring effects of individual and family background characteristics on occupational preferences, and the influence of occupational segregation on gender wage differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States....

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