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Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Coneus, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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,...

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Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees? entire...

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The Effect of Early Noncognitive Skills on Social Outcomes in Adolescence

Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child's attention span, approach, prevailing mood and distractibility in early childhood may be crucial predictors for school achievements, health risk behavior, delinquency and autonomy as...

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How much does a year off cost? Estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...

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Orphans at risk in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence on educational and health outcomes

Coneus, Katja; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

In this paper, we examine how orphanhood affects children's educational and health outcomes in eleven sub-Saharan African countries. Our analysis is based on a comparison of orphans and non-orphaned children living under the same conditions. We also examine the impacts of various family...

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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level

Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?

Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

observations from Germany and Sweden. Applying a knowledge production function that gives the relationship between innovation input …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been …

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Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure: econometric results from aggregated survey data

Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

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