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Noncognitive skills, Internet use and educational dropout

Coneus, Katja (contributor); Gernandt, Johannes (contributor) - 2008

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills...

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Educational attaintment and returns to education in Germany : an analysis by subject of degree, gender and region

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2005

Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … first time for Germany in such detail. The data indicate an educational expansion, especially for women in West Germany … degree subjects in West than in East Germany, especially for women. …

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Aggregate unemployment decreases individual returns to education

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...

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Continuing vocational training in Germany : a comparative study using 3 German data set

Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2006

Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training …

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Wage and productivity effect of continuing training in Germany : a sectoral analysis

Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor) - 2006

Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb-Douglas production framework. Using system GMM...

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Earnings prospects for people with migration background in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher (contributor); … - 2007

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using … Germany lead to better earnings prospects compared to degrees obtained abroad for persons with migration background …. Independently of gender and skill level, the estimates affirm higher earnings to educational attainment in Germany. …

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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers

Gebel, Michael (contributor); … - 2007

The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place....

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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2007

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Sinkende Bildungsrenditen durch Bildungsreformen? : Evidenz aus Mikrozensus und SOEP

Göggel, Kathrin (contributor) - 2007

Die Bildungsreformen der sechziger Jahre sollten das Bildungsniveau der Westdeutschen anheben. Die Analyse der Daten des Mikrozensus weist darauf hin, dass die durch die Bildungsreformen intendierte Bildungsexpansion schon vor 1960 begonnen hat. Mit dem Conditional Mean Independence Ansatz...

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Verteilungseffekte der öffentlichen Finanzierung der Hochschulbildung in Deutschland : Eine Längsschnittbetrachtung auf der Basis des sozioökonomischen Panels

Borgloh, Sarah (contributor); … - 2007

Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Verteilungswirkungen der Hochschulfinanzierung im Längsschnitt. Die Leistungen, die Hochschulabsolventen in Form der Hochschulbildung erhalten, werden den hochschulbezogenen (Steuer-)Lasten der Hochschulabsolventen gegenübergestellt. Es zeigt sich, dass...

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