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Worker personality : another skill bias beyond education in the digital age
Bode, Eckhardt; Brunow, Stephan; Ott, Ingrid; Sorgner, Alina - 2016
We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills acquired through education but also with respect to noncognitive skills (personality). We measure the direction of technological change by estimated future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572148
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Do women in highly qualified positions face higher work-to-family conflicts in Germany than men?
Busch-Heizmann, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2017
opportunities. Referring conflicting theoretical arguments, we hypothesize that in Germany - as a conservative welfare state - women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638877
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Distributional consequences of labor demand adjustments to a downturn : a model-based approach with application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2010
Germany. We take as a starting point a very detailed administrative matched employer-employee dataset to estimate labor demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826267
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825071
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Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills
Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2013 - Version: 02.02.2013
We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713175
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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360371
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197409
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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude
Hille, Adrian - 2015
music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441643
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The influence of personality traits on private retirement savings in Germany
Schäfer, Konrad C. - 2016
by personality traits. With the 2002 to 2009 cross section of the Socio-Economic Panel for Germany (SOEP), it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538182
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537