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The broken elevator: Declining absolute mobility of living standards in germany

Bönke, Timm; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Lüthen, Holger - 2024

This study provides the first absolute income mobility estimates for postwar Germany. Using various micro data sources, we uncover a steep decline in absolute mobility rates from 81 percent to 59 percent for children's birth cohorts 1962 through 1988. This trend is robust across different ages,...

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Nachhilfe als Strategie zur Verwirklichung von Bildungszielen. Eine empirische Untersuchung mit Daten des Soziooekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

Schneider, Thorsten - 2004

Außerschulische, privat bezahlte Nachhilfe ist ein Thema, das in der Bildungsforschung bisher wenig beachtet wurde. Nach den Theorien der Bildungswahl lässt sich argumentieren, dass Nachhilfe die Chancenungleichheit beim Bildungserwerb erhöht. Mit den Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels...

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The effect of family income during childhood on later-life attainment : evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...

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Representative Wealth Data for Germany from the German SOEP: The Impact of Methodological Decisions around Imputation and the Choice of the Aggregation Unit

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva M. - 2007

The definition and operationalization of wealth information in population surveys and the corresponding microdata …-data-collection stage may interfere considerably with the substantive research question. Looking at wealth data from the German SOEP, this … analysis affects wealth distribution and inequality analysis. Obviously, when measured in ?per capita household? terms, wealth …

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Post-socialist transition and the intergenerational transmission of education in Kyrgyzstan

Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - 2013

We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...

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Self-Selection and the Returns to Geographic Mobility: What Can Be Learned from the German Reunification 'Experiment'

Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2006

This paper investigates the causal effect of geographic labour mobility on income. The returns to German East-West migration and commuting are estimated exploiting the structure of centrally planned economies and a "natural experiment" of German reunification for identification. I find that...

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Financing on-the-job training: Shared investment or promotion based system? Evidence from Germany

Pannenberg, Markus - 1996

Though the shared investment hypothesis of human capital theory, i.e. that employers and employees share the costs of and the return on investment in firm-specific human capital, is widely accepted, we know little about the empirical evidence. The paper shows that in German data (1984-1991)...

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Does employer learning vary by occupation?

Mansour, Hani - 2010

Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second, the coefficient on a variable that employers...

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Occuptational choice across generations

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie F.; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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