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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011
This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122121
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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2012
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104973
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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes
Osikominu, Aderonke - 2009
both unemployment and employment duration. Our analysis uses a rich administrative longitudinal data set for Germany where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153023
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The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
Fertig, Michael - 2009
effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159508
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Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills
Doepke, Matthias - 2020
as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model in …-protected workers in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831975
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Earnings Effects of Training Programs
Lechner, Michael; Melly, Blaise - 2021
reevaluation of Germany's training programs of 1993 and 1994, we find that the programs considerably improve the long-run earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316916
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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education : Simulation Based Evidence
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2021
This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in cognitive and noncognitive skills is a lifecycle simulation...
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment : The German Case
Bauer, Thomas K.; Gang, Ira N. - 2021
results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321252
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321313
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Children and Parents Time Use : Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2021
countries (France, Italy and Germany) on the link between time allocation by parents and time allocation by youngsters …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324799