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He's a Chip Off the Old Block - The Persistence of Occupational Choices Across Generations
Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - 2021
The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects related to parental advice and influence (nurture) from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315709
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He's a Chip Off the Old Block - The Persistence of Occupational Choices Across Generations
Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine; Schlenker, Eva - CESifo - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects related to parental advice and influence (nurture) from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010701085
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Human Capital, Social Mobility and the Skill Premium
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2013
channels through which the effects of capital tax cuts and increases in public spending on both pre- and post-college education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075985
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Redistribution or Education? The Political Economy of the Social Race
Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2021
vote on two issues: redistributive policies for them and education investment for their children. Public education is the … families may exchange their positions with children born to rich families. This is because education reduces the probability of … probabilistic voting. When the poor are more politically influential, the economy is characterized by higher levels of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317185
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Labor Market Sorting in Germany
Lochner, Benjamin - 2016
This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981286
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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054013
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316213
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645655
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583660
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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheusser, Gerd - CESifo - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542014