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Human Capital and Wages in Exporting Firms

Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2021

This paper studies the link between a firm's education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue … find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and … skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an …

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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020

How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...

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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice

Heineck, Guido - 2010

Germany where tracking occurs at age ten and has a strong binding character. Our results indicate no consistent patterns for …

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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

Schüller, Simone - 2011

A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...

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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …

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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

Schüller, Simone - 2012

The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview...

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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills

Hille, Adrian - 2013

Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...

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Does Schooling Affect Health Behavior? Evidence from the Educational Expansion in Western Germany

Jürges, Hendrik - 2010

During the postwar period German states pursued policies to increase the share of young Germans obtaining a university entrance diploma (Abitur) by building more academic track schools, but the timing of educational expansion differed between states. This creates exogenous variation in the...

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The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK

Algan, Yann - 2009

also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …

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