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Collective memory, cultural transmission, and investments

Dessí, Roberta - In: The American economic review 98 (2008) 1, pp. 534-560

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Educational attaintment and returns to education in Germany : an analysis by subject of degree, gender and region

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2005

Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … in addition to GSOEP data, which allows estimating returns to tertiary education separately by subject of degree for the …

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Aggregate unemployment decreases individual returns to education

Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor); … - 2006

education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … to education by 0.005 percentage points. This implies that higher skilled employees are better sheltered from labour … regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We …

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Rising wage inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...

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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2007

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Mortality, fertility, education and capital accumulation in a simple OLG economy

Ludwig, Alexander; Vogel, Edgar - In: Journal of population economics 23 (2010) 2, pp. 703-735

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International migration and economic growth : a source country perspective

Chen, Hung-Ju - In: Journal of population economics 19 (2006) 4, pp. 725-748

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Earnings prospects for people with migration background in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher (contributor); … - 2007

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...

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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013

introduced in 2011. Additional investments into secondary education will, as a rule, not cause life time income to raise enough … to compensate its costs. -- Early education ; demographic change ; inequality over the life span ; redistributive policy …

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The education-health gradient

Conti, Gabriella; Heckman, James J.; Urzua, Sergio - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 234-238

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