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Time Is Money: The Influence of Parenthood Timing on Wages
Kind, Michael; Kleibrink, Jan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
and fertility timing. We find that delaying parenthood by one additional year during the career implies a wage premium of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818240
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The Effect of Education on Fertility: Evidence from a Compulsory Schooling Reform
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Maeder, Miriam - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of education on fertility under inflexible labor market conditions. We exploit … complementary data sets, we examine different fertility outcomes over the life cycle. In contrast to evidence for other developed … countries, we find that increased education causally reduces completed fertility. This negative effect operates through a …
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Post-Socialist Culture and Entrepreneurship
Runst, Petrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
In this paper it is argued that locus of control beliefs and preferences concerning state action negatively affect the formation of new firms in former socialist countries. For this purpose Kirzner's theory of costless entrepreneurship is reviewed and criticized. German reunification, in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021620
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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout (Revised Version)
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646387
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The Role of Family Risk Attitudes in Education and Intergenerational Mobility: An Empirical Analysis
Huebener, Mathias - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper analyses the role of family risk attitudes in intergenerational mobility in incomes and education. Based on 1984-2009 data of sons and fathers from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, there is evidence suggesting that sons with risk taking fathers have a significantly higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818237
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Are Tall People Less Risk Averse than Others?
Hübler, Olaf - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
This paper examines the question of whether risk aversion of prime-age workers is negatively correlated with human height to a statistically significant degree. A variety of estimation methods, tests and specifications yield robust results that permit one to answer this question in the...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114567
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Duration of Maternity Leave in Germany: A Case Study of Nonparametric Hazard Models and Penalized Splines
Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Kauermann, Göran - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
The paper investigates maternity leave behavior in West Germany for females being employed between 1995 and 2006 using data from the German Socio Economic Panel. The observational study focuses on the investigation of individual and family-related covariate effects on the duration of maternity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017440
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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017445
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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018727