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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 … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it … overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals choosing these subjects might differ systematically in unobserved …
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Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097929
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Abschreibungsraten allgemeiner und beruflicher Ausbildungsinhalte
Ludwig, Volker; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
In dieser Arbeit werden Abschreibungsraten allgemeiner und beruflicher Ausbildungsinhalte im Erwerbsleben untersucht. Es wird analysiert, ob die Ausbildungsinhalte des Dualen Ausbildungssystems im Zeitalter der Akademisierung und der Computerrevolution eine beschleunigte Abschreibung erfahren...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097541
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Berufliche Weiterbildung und Existenzgründung
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098269
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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015
the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269119
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Maintaining (locus of) control? Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia R. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756425
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with implications for labour market outcomes. The paper examines, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and associated wage differentials. Our empirical findings with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869226
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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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The wage effects of entering motherhood: a within-firm matching approach
Beblo, Miriam; Bender, Stefan; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
motherhood, since we find first births to reduce women?s wages by 16 to 19 percent, regardless of the matching procedure applied …We analyze the wage effects of employment breaks of women entering motherhood using a novel within-firm matching … approach where mothers? wages upon return to the job are compared with those of their female colleagues within the same firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098246
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Return and risk of human capital contracts
Kroencke, Tim A.; Muehler, Grit; Sprietsma, Maresa - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Human capital contracts give private investors the right to share of students' future earnings in return for a financial contribution during their studies. Although still rarely used, human capital contracts could not only help to completement limited public funding for higher education but...
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