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family background, thus face similar difficulties as migrant children. Our results point at more general inequalities in …We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to … receive recommendations for or to enroll at any secondary school type as native children. Comparable natives, in terms of …
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gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …
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This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...
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Wenn institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf behindern, wird die Wahl zwischen … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland …
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one third. We scrutinize this gender gap using individual-level data from the KfW Start-up Monitor, a large … models and employing decomposition techniques, we find that gender differences in socio-demographics alone would even be in … start-ups among women and explains about one third of the entire gender difference. Most substantially, men opt for a start …
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Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
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of interest. We find that children of low-educated parents benefit significantly from the presence of high … the causal impact of parental peer-heterogeneity on the educational outcomes of their children. To identify the direction … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …
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associated with it. Overall, the literature confirms the existence of considerable social, ethnic, gender- and age …
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