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Does a Bachelor's degree pay off? : labor market outcomes of academic versus vocational education after Bologna
Neugebauer, Martin; Weiss, Felix - 2017
universities are also related to higher risks of unemployment or fixed-term employment. Universities of applied sciences, which … fixed-term employment at the bachelor’s and the master’s level. Overall, ‘general’ academic education provides advantages …
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Explaining gaps in educational transitions between migrant and native school leavers
Zimmermann, Markus - 2019
This paper analyzes the reasons for the large and persistent gaps in transitions after secondary school between native pupils compared to second- and third generation immigrant pupils in Germany. I first document that differences in parental background, skills (such as school degrees or test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033803
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039
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Working longer, working stronger? : the forward-looking effects of increasing the retirement age on (un)employment behaviour
Gohl, Niklas - 2023
increase in the working horizon on (un)employment behaviour for individuals with a long remaining statutory working life. Using … probability of employment, decreases the probability of unemployment, and increases the intensity of job search among the … unemployed. Heterogeneity analyses show that the demonstrated employment effects are strongest for women and in occupations with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014245855
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Enhancing recovery rates : lessons from year one of the English improving access to psychological therapies programme
Gyani, Alex; Shafran, Roz; Layard, Peter R. G.; Clark, … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777670
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Migration effects on municipalities' expenditures
Viren, Matti - 2016
In this paper we examine how Finnish municipalities' expenditures depend on the demographic structure of the population. More precisely, we scrutinize the role of foreign citizens: how does the share of foreign citizens out of the total population manifest itself in total expenditures and some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503066
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Refugee Migration and the Politics of Redistribution: Do Supply and Demand Meet?
Matakos, Konstantinos; Savolainen, Riikka; Tukiainen, Janne - 2020
Voter demand for less redistribution in the face of mass migration maps into actual outcomes insofar as politicians supplying these policies respond to it. We study whether establishing new asylum-seeker centers influences redistributive outcomes in Finnish local elections - a country where...
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The fiscal consequences of immigration: A study of local governments' expenditures
Virén, Matti E. E. - 2022
In this paper we examine how Finnish municipalities' expenditures depend on the share of citizens with foreign background out of the total population. Empirical analyses make use of Finnish panel data from 295 municipalities and 202 migrant nationalities for the period 1987- 2018. It turns out...
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