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Earnings Losses After Non-employment Increase With Age

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with relatively high earnings in comparison to employees without employment interruptions several years before the non-employment spell. This earnings advantage turns into a strong...

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Indikatoren zur Ausbildung im Hochschulbereich: Studien zum Innovationssystem Deutschlands, Nr. 10-2004

Egeln, Jürgen; Eckert, Thomas; Heine, Christoph; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

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Fiscal adjustment in Greece: In search for sustainable public finances

van Aarle, Bas; Kappler, Marcus - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

This paper analyses Greek fiscal sustainability from a retrospective and a prospective view. Implications of Greek fiscal (un)sustainability are discussed. In the empirical analysis econometric testing of Greek government solvency during the period 1985-2008 is combined with a scenario analysis...

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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

higher education. The expected return to education in terms of wages also affects educational decisions significantly. A …

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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

earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds …

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Offshoring and labor income risk

Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large number of studies explaining the level effects of globalization on the labor market in that it takes a look at effects on second moments, i.e. the variance of incomes. It provides...

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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 … overqualification and wages in a causal way, since individuals choosing these subjects might differ systematically in unobserved … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …

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