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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …
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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2016
exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East Germany after reunification. Our identification strategy utilizes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000066
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Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001
Baumgartner, Hans J. - 2007
(BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount …
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New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States : An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions
Meyer, Tobias - 2015
Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we use nationwide data on high school graduates and apply a difference-in-differences approach to...
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Financial Student Aid and Enrollment into Higher Education : New Evidence from Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation...
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The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country
Livanos, Ilias - 2009
This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece is examined due to the fact that it is an EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153018
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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Fricke, Hans - 2015
This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the same curriculum before they choose a major. An important component of the first-year curriculum...
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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany : What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Busch, Anne - 2012
The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105996
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How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?
Prantl, Susanne - 2009
differences between regulated occupations and unregulated occupations in East Germany to the corresponding differences in West … Germany after reunification. Consistent with our expectations, we find that entry regulation reduces entry into self …-employment and occupational mobility after reunification more in regulated occupations in East Germany than in West Germany. Our …
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Entrepreneurship, Wealth, Liquidity Constraints and Start-Up Costs
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - 2021
We study the effects of liquidity constraints and start-up costs on the relationship between wealth and the fraction of entrepreneurs in an economy. We develop a dynamic occupational choice model with endogenous wealth and entry into entrepreneurship. The model predicts that, with liquidity...
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