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What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA Results, Migration Background and Social Mobility in Europe and Traditional Countries of Immigration
Minoiu, Nicoleta; Entorf, Horst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
emphasis on language skills at the early stage of childhood. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097802
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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching
Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097767
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The sorting of female careers after first birth: A competing risks analysis of maternity leave duration
Arntz, Melanie; Dlugosz, Stephan; Wilke, Ralf A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
unprecedented insights how women's skills, the quality of the previous job match, firm level characteristics, labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122575
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Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei bedarfsgerechtem Ausbau frühkindlicher Kindertagesbetreuung: Eine Mikrosimulationsstudie
Beninger, Denis; Bonin, Holger; Horstschräer, Julia; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Der Beitrag evaluiert die Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei gleichzeitigem Ausbau der öffentlich geförderten Tagesbetreuung für Kinder im Alter von 13 bis 36 Monaten. Wir schätzen mit SOEP-Daten und unter Berücksichtigung partiell beobachtbarer Rationierungen im Betreuungsbereich ein...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646446
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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation: Evidence for the first 11 years of life
Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
skills, while emotional skills seem to be unaffected by parental investment throughout childhood. Thus, initial inequality …This paper examines the impact of parental investments on the development of cognitive, mental and emotional skills … offers three important innovations. First, we use reliable measures of the child's cognitive, mental and emotional skills as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008494190
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Online but still divided: Inequality in private internet use in Germany
Coneus, Katja; Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In this analysis, we compare the determinants of the first-level and the second-level digital divide for private internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use to explain inequalities in internet intensity, explicitly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568593
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533544
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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
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. Using an administrative German data set we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098246
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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
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 … German Socio-Economic Panel for the birth cohorts 2002-2005. The magnitude of self-productivity varies between skills and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097504
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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Coneus, Katja - 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 … German Socio-Economic Panel for the birth cohorts 2002-2005. The magnitude of self-productivity varies between skills and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097506