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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls

Ammermueller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany : Evidence and Interpretation

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till - 2021

the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries …

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Continuous Training in Germany

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is …

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Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

explanations of firm sponsored training. Using microdata from Germany, we show that the predictions of the specific human capital …

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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Does Rosie Like Riveting? Male and Female Occupational Choices

Lordan, Grace - 2016

Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...

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Wage Flexibility and Employment Fluctuations : Evidence from the Housing Sector

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016

Many economists suspect that downward nominal wage rigidities in ongoing labor contracts are an important source of employment fluctuations over the business cycle but there is little direct empirical evidence on this conjecture. This paper compares three occupations in the housing sector with...

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Comprehensive Versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales : What Do We Know?

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Manning, Alan - 2021

British secondary schools moved from a system of extensive and early selection and tracking in secondary schools to one with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which determined whether they would attend an academically...

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Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children'S Education

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than they were in the 1970s, while the opposite is...

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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

Becker's theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers, because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance training. We show that when the assumption of perfectly competitive labor markets underlying this...

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