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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area … increases intergenerational income mobility among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances …

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Microeconometric analysis of individual and institutional determinants of education and occupational choice

Obergruber, Natalie - 2018

This study analyses which individual and institutional factors (causally) influence individuals in their educational career and in their choice for an occupation. Chapter 2 explores consequences of parental separation for cognitive skill development of children. In the year before parental...

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Institutional determinants of student achievement : microeconometric evidence

Link, Susanne - 2013

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...

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How political, spatial, and administrative changes shape the local level : evidence from municipalities

Dörr, Luisa - 2022

outcomes. Chapter 3 examines how highway access affects commuting and employment in connected municipalities. Chapter 4 …

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Family Decision-Making on International Migration

Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2014

We use a unique survey of Danes who have emigrated between 1987 and 2002 to study intra-family decision-making on international migration. Our survey reached 582 respondents with a Danish partner who was the same as before emigration. We model family decision-making in a bargaining framework and...

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Do High-Skilled Immigrants find Jobs Faster than Low-Skilled Immigrants?

Wapler, Rüdiger; Hochfellner, Daniela - 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

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Granting Birthright Citizenship - A Door Opener for Immigrant Children's Educational Participation and Success?

Saurer, Judith; Felfe, Christina - 2014

Does granting citizenship at birth help immigrant children to integrate in the host country's educational system and thus, to promote their educational success? Our identification strategy is based on a reform of the German naturalization law in 2000. We exploit this natural experiment and use a...

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Education economics from a historical perspective

Schüler, Ruth M. - 2018

The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects prosperity and nation building in a setting of...

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Economic perspectives on the implications of public child care and schooling for educational outcomes in childhood and adult life

Zierow, Larissa - 2017

Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize winner James Heckman shows that skills are built from the early childhood on and increase the returns of later educational inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is...

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Three empirical essays on the long-run consequences of early-life living conditions

Neelsen, Sven - 2012

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