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trade. This paper uses a large and rich set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to demonstrate that these premia …
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In this paper, the role of the computer at the workplace will be examined in determining the wage structure in Germany … (1997) had for France, that in Germany the coefficient for computer usage at the workplace did not remain stable and …
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This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical results for Germany support this jack …
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This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility and wages show that labor...
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students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social … programs by students at the University of Washington. Our data set allows us to track student donations and economics training … likely to donate than other students and that there is an indoctrination effect for non-majors but not for majors. Women …
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students at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, over the period 2001-2005. Gender, nationality, type of school, specialization … those students who did a technical track at high school tend to do better in mathematics than those who followed a social … formalism and more economic content. Moreover, students from public schools are predominant in the lower (with social sciences …
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on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning … efficiency was a decreasing importance of students? attendance and of continuous preparation of the material. …
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This research note uses two German data sets the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel and unique data from own student questionnaires to analyse the relationship between risk aversion and the choice for public sector employment. Main results are: (1) more risk averse individuals sort into...
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Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a … (baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …
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