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The educational attainment of the second generation in Germany : social origins and ethnic inequality
Kristen, Cornelia; Granato, Nadia - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
descendants of classic labour migrants. Our results show that educational outcomes in terms of attending or completing the highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005132554
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The educational attainment of the second generation in Germany : social origins and ethnic inequality
Kristen, Cornelia; Granato, Nadia - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007
descendants of classic labour migrants. Our results show that educational outcomes in terms of attending or completing the highest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592481
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Does higher education help immigrants find a job? : A survival analysis
Brück-Klingberg, Andrea; Burkert, Carola; Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592451
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Does higher education help immigrants find a job? : A survival analysis
Brück-Klingberg, Andrea; Burkert, Carola; Garloff, Alfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare the results for Ethnic Germans with those for foreigners from the same origin countries and Native Germans. In the first case, the two have the same labour market access but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852390
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The productivity effect of migrants : wage cost advantages and heterogeneous firms
Lucht, Michael; Haas, Anette - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of … migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz … (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different productivity levels and imperfect substitutability between migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183134
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Parental risk attitudes and children's secondary school track choice
Heineck, Guido; Wölfel, Oliver - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"It is well known that individuals' risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether parental attitudes affect the educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592270
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Lifelong learning inequality? The relevance of family background for on-the-job training
Antoni, Manfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"Despite ample evidence on intergenerational persistence of formal education as well as on the determinants of non-formal training, these issues have not yet been analysed jointly. The question remains whether people from low-qualified family backgrounds make up for their relatively sparse own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592308
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Parental risk attitudes and children's secondary school track choice
Heineck, Guido; Wölfel, Oliver - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2010
"It is well known that individuals' risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether parental attitudes affect the educational attainment of dependent children. We add to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671529
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Lifelong learning inequality? The relevance of family background for on-the-job training
Antoni, Manfred - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2011
"Despite ample evidence on intergenerational persistence of formal education as well as on the determinants of non-formal training, these issues have not yet been analysed jointly. The question remains whether people from low-qualified family backgrounds make up for their relatively sparse own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862992
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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2015
"This paper investigates the short-term effects of a reduction in the length of high school on students' personality traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198600