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This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children's later consumption of alcohol … effect is more prominent in the upper tail than elsewhere in the distribution of children's alcohol consumption, conventional … regression analyses that focus on the mean effect may substantially underrate parental drinking as a risk factor for children …
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This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country's population in social mobility may influence the location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain drain dataset with population survey data from the ISSP for the period 1987-2010 to identify the effect...
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We analyze public expectations about migrants' provision of work effort as a driving force in the self-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty's (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how country-specific public expectations affect the...
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home education on attitude formation. Yet, factors such as parents' knowledge, their morals, and their weltanschauung are …
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This paper aims at analyzing the determinants of the decision to start smoking using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The data used is a combination of retrospective information on the age individuals started smoking and,by tracing back these individuals within the panel...
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We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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Schulen untersuchen wir den kausalen Einfluss von Bildung auf Einkommen und kognitive Fähigkeiten. Drei unterschiedliche …
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This study investigates the impact of non-formal training on job tasks of workers. The analysis is based on panel data from Germany covering detailed information on tasks performed at work at the level of individual workers. The results indicate that after training workers are more engaged in...
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