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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...
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Technological progress in western economies has contributed to an immense rise in productivity, incomes and goods available over the last hundred years. Though not to the same extent as productivity and wages, population and employment have risen as well. Nevertheless, innovations are often...
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Humankapital hat sich als einer der wichtigsten Standortfaktoren der Industriegesellschaft und erst recht des technologieintensiven und exportorientierten Baden-Württemberg herauskristallisiert. Eine unzulängliche Nutzung von Humankapital führt zu einer Minderung der Standortqualität und...
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Anhaltend hohe Arbeitslosenzahlen in Deutschland werden immer wieder auch auf eine zu rigide Entgeltstruktur zurückgeführt. Diese Inflexibilität habe ihre Ursache in einem (zu) stark regulierten Arbeitsmarkt. Das deutsche Arbeitsrecht lasse Flexibilisierungen im Entgeltbereich nicht (oder...
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The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...
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In dieser Studie werden auf der Basis eines Mikrosimulationsmodells Nettoerträge und Renditen von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland untersucht. Dabei wird ein Studium mit einer Berufsausbildung und eine Berufsausbildung mit der Alternative weder Berufsausbildung noch Studium verglichen. Nach...
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Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child's impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother's impatience has been assessed by a choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a...
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Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these home alone children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...
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This study explores the intergenerational transmission of time preferences and focuses on the question which specific aspects of mother's time preference are related to her preschool child's ability to delay gratification. We provide a new procedure for assessing the parameters of a...
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