family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors cognitive skills, study characteristics …Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings … might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects …

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms' point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …

The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West … what workers have learned during apprenticeship. Furthermore, we estimate earnings functions with the same specification …, testing whether firm-specific and socio-economic factors have the same relevance for applicability and earnings. The results …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …

In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the …) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that about 1/3 of the earnings differential in the labor market has been …

returns to investment in skills is an elaboration of the model of skill formation from Cunha, Heckman et al. (2006) over the …