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countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters … effects, as individuals adapt their behavior to social patterns. -- Study time ; socializing ; networking ; youth …
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Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated...
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in Germany. -- Smoking ; lone parent ; childhood family structure ; divorce ; unobserved heterogeneity …
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Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates … between East and West Germany, both before and after reunification, to investigate a causal relationship. Instrumental …
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Disconnectedness among youth can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school …, unemployment and the lack of an intimate relationship are among the most important ones. In our samples from SOEP youth … questionnaires, approximately 13% of young people in Germany between the ages of 17 and 19 are disconnected. The percentage of …
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, Italy and Germany, to see how the common feature of separate tracks at Secondary School level may produce different impacts … parental education. We then move to country-specific data sets (ISTAT 2001 for Italy and GSOEP 2001 and 2002 for Germany) to …
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While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation …
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Even though second generation immigrants make up ever increasing population shares in industrialized countries we know little about their social integration and wellbeing. This study focuses on the educational attainment of German born children of immigrants. Their schooling success still lags...
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...
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The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...
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