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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?

Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …

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Determinants of individual academic achievement: Group selectivity effects have many dimensions

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

tertiary education or cognitive skills. This paper is based on a large and representative graduate survey of graduates in the …

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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

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Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education

Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...

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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding

Lauer, Charlotte - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of social origin as well as of expectations regarding the labour market outcome of a higher education degree and of public educational policy are examined. The estimations are based...

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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany

Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

is found for the effect of gender and cohort. …

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All Quiet on the Wage Front?

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

private than in the public sector. Our test results show that, contrary to the public sector, there are no gender differences …

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Union Density and Varieties of Coverage: The Anatomy of Union Wage Effects in Germany

Lembcke, Alexander C.; Kohn, Karsten; Fitzenberger, Bernd - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining coverage is much higher than union density; and not all employees in a covered firm are necessarily covered. This institutional setup suggests to explicitly distinguish union...

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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium: technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union

Franz, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled- biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....

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