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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offspring's employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421183
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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German … survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation … and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers' unemployment is causal for offspring's employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959626
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Endogenous exit bias in training programs for unemployed workers
Kluve, Jochen; Rinne, Ulf; Uhlendorff, Arne; Zhao, Zhong - 2012
This paper assesses the importance of reverse causality when evaluating the impact of training duration for unemployed workers. We use planned duration as an instrumental variable for actual duration. Our results suggest that the potential endogeneity of exits seems to be only relevant in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282370
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Economic mobility, family background, and the well-being of children in the United States and Canada
Corak, Miles; Curtis, Lori; Phipps, Shelley - 2010
the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269450
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia; Schoch, Johannes - 2011
estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain … estimation to deal with imperfect recollection of conditions at very early stages of life. The estimated average causal effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282369
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Partially Linear Models under Data Combination
D'Haultfoeuille, Xavier; Gaillac, Christophe; Maurel, Arnaud - 2022
We consider the identification of and inference on a partially linear model, when the outcome of interest and some of the covariates are observed in two different datasets that cannot be linked. This type of data combination problem arises very frequently in empirical microeconomics. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351769
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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany: moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German … Germany than in the U.S. However, as in the U.S., I find greater mobility among German natives than among immigrants. Moreover …, I investigate to what extent the lower mobility among immigrants in Germany is due to ethnic capital as suggested by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269398
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Vocational training and gender: wages and occupational mobility among young workers
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - 2005
occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267692
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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vikström, Johan - 2009
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277336
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Monitoring Job Offer Decisions, Punishments, Exit to Work, and Job Quality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078566