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Worker Reallocation across Occupations in Western Germany

Isaoglu, Aysen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

then investigated while controlling for unobserved worker heterogeneity. A dynamic probit fixed effects model is estimated …

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Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature

Stuhler, Jan Leonard - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

I argue that the empirical strategies for estimation of the intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings that are currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from life-cycle effects. Specifically, I demonstrate that procedures based on the generalized...

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Self-Employment and Geographical Mobility in Germany

Reuschke, Darja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Little is known about the individual location behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs. This paper investigates the geographical mobility behaviour of self-employed entrepreneurs, as compared to employees, thereby shedding new light onto the place embeddedness of self-employment. It examines...

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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

Decoster, André; Haan, Peter - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the analysis. They also make the ethical priors, implicit in any interpersonal … measures. We retrieve individual and household specific preference heterogeneity, by estimating a structural discrete choice … different metrics, each embodying different ethical choices concerning the preference heterogeneity in the consumption …

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The Nature and Extent of Job Separations in Germany: Some New Evidence from SOEP

Haile, Getinet - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

This paper analyses job separations in Germany using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel spanning from 1984 to 2003. Based on detailed reasons for job separation and different SOEP samples, the paper attempts to establish the nature of job separations in Germany. It brings to light some...

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A New Look at Intergenerational Mobility in Germany Compared to the US

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can reproduce the standard result from the literature,...

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How Important Is the Family?: Evidence from Sibling Correlations in Permanent Earnings in the US, Germany and Denmark

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

This paper is the first to analyze intergenerational economic mobility based on sibling correlations in permanent earnings in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and the US. The main findings are as follows: the importance of family and community background in...

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Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling

Kemptner, Daniel; Marcus, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set...

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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness': Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten Van - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event' , the literature argues that selfemployed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368913

Occupational Affiliation Data and Measurement Errors in the German Socio-Economic Panel

Isaoglu, Aysen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010

This paper shows that there are severe measurement errors regarding the occupational affiliations in the German Socio-Economic Panel. These errors are traced back to the survey structure: in years where occupational information is gathered from the entire employed population instead of only from...

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