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The Information Value of Central School Exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307069
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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012
subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288247
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Central Exams and Adult Skills: Evidence from PIAAC
Leschnig, Lisa; Schwerdt, Guido; Zigova, Katarina - 2021
Central exams are often hypothesized to favorably affect incentive structures in schools. Indeed, previous research provides vast evidence on the positive effects of central exams on student test scores. But critics warn that these effects may arise through the strategic behavior of students and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493045
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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans
Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009
This paper analyses the effects of education signals for Ethnic Germans and Germans without a migration background (Native Germans"). We base our analysis on a sorting model with productivity enhancing effects of education. We compare whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266054
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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany
Maghularia, Rita; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2019
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … naturalized immigrants. We also take into account possible spillover effects of immigrants on criminal activities by Germans … instrumental variable approach that deals with the possibly endogenous allocation of immigrants and allows for causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052802
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When Immigrants Meet Exporters: A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap
Marchal, Léa; Ourens, Guzmán; Sabbadini, Giulia - 2022
workers shows that our findings are consistent with white-collar immigrants capturing an informational rent. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470350
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
migrants, and immigrants, we adjust achievement scores for selective migration. We use the new human capital measures in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307079
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Economic Gains for U.S. States from Educational Reform
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431207
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Opportunity and Inequality across Generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2020
schooling investment into the next generation, is observable but the draw of nature in terms of ability is hidden, stochastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179898
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531772