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Evidence and persistence of education inequality in an early-tracking system : the German case
Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle; Schüller, Simone - 2014
This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities associated with it. Overall, the literature confirms the existence of considerable social, ethnic, gender- and age-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on...
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according to workers' origin: the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...
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Inequality in personality over the life cycle
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic...
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Where do STEM graduates stem from? : the intergenerational transmission of comparative skill advantages
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Jacobs, Babs; Schwerdt, Guido; … - 2023
The standard economic model of occupational choice following a basic Roy model emphasizes individual selection and comparative advantage, but the sources of comparative advantage are not well understood. We employ a unique combination of Dutch survey and registry data that links math and...
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …
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Skill variety, innovation and new business formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - 2014
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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Innovation, productivity, and training
Dostie, Benoît - 2014
stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342449
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
more active in R&D. -- ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675512
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Should Continued Family Firms Face Lower Taxes than Other Estates?
Grossmann, Volker - 2009
Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...
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