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Single motherhood and (un)equal educational opportunities : evidence for Germany

Mahler, Philippe (contributor); … - 2005

We examine the effect of single motherhood on children’s secondary school track choice using 12-year-old children drawn … correlation between single motherhood and children’s educational attainment. Looking for alternative explanations for this …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003215938

Secondary school track selection of single-parent children : evidence from the German socio-economic panel

Mahler, Philippe (contributor); … - 2005 - Revised: October 2005

In present day Germany, one in seven children is raised in a single parent household. We investigate the effect of … single parenthood on children’s educational attainment, measured by the school track at the age 14, using ordered probit … children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. -- school choice ; educational attainment ; ordered response model …

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A structural model of demand for apprentices

Mühlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Jürg; Winkelmann, Rainer; … - 2005

It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that therefore firms only train if they have the possibility to recoup these investments after the training period. A recent study using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed,...

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The apple falls increasingly far : parent-child correlation in schooling and the growth of post-secondary education in Switzerland

Hanslin, Sandra (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we analyze the completed highest education degree of two birth cohorts (1934-1943 and 1964-1973) in Switzerland, using data from the 1999 wave of the Swiss Household Panel. As expected, the fraction of tertiary graduates has increased over time, for women more so than for men....

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