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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments? A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600971
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Are Education and Entrepreneurial Income Endogenous and Do Family Background Variables Make Sense as Instruments?: A Bayesian Analysis
Block, Jörn H.; Hoogerheide, Lennart F.; Thurik, A. Roy - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from …) income and of education. Using instrumental variables can provide a way out. However, three questions remain: whether … that the relationship between education and entrepreneurial income is indeed endogenous and that the impact of endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693473
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The effect of schooling on parental integration: Evidence from Germany
Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023
Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438403
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Determinants and Consequences of Health Behaviour: New Evidence from German Micro Data
Schneider, Brit S.; Schneider, Udo - 2009
The economic costs of chronic health conditions and severe illnesses like diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer are immense. Several clinical trials give information about the importance of individual behaviour for the prevalence of these illnesses. Changes in health relevant behaviour may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600896
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Determinants and Consequences of Health Behaviour: New Evidence from German Micro Data
Schneider, Brit S.; Schneider, Udo - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009
The economic costs of chronic health conditions and severe illnesses like diabetes, coronary heart disease or cancer are immense. Several clinical trials give information about the importance of individual behaviour for the prevalence of these illnesses. Changes in health relevant behaviour may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008546998
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Theorie und Empirie über den Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital, Bildung und Einkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Krenz, Astrid - 2008
Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur aktuellen Bildungsdebatte und knüpft an die Theorie des Soziologen Pierre Bourdieus an: untersucht wird, ob und inwiefern die soziale Herkunft eines jungen Menschen in Deutschland sein Einkommen determiniert. Neben der Darlegung theoretischer und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600773
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Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010
effect only translates into labor income via the channel of education. Factor structure models are implemented on an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600980
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Theorie und Empirie über den Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital, Bildung und Einkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Krenz, Astrid - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag zur aktuellen Bildungsdebatte und knüpft an die Theorie des Soziologen Pierre Bourdieus an: untersucht wird, ob und inwiefern die soziale Herkunft eines jungen Menschen in Deutschland sein Einkommen determiniert. Neben der Darlegung theoretischer und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018744
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Maintaining (Locus of) Control?: Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
effect only translates into labor income via the channel of education. Factor structure models are implemented on an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008754942
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Do Sporty People Have Access to Higher Job Quality?
Cabane, Charlotte - 2010
Very little attention has been paid to the impact of sports participation on the labour market in the European academic literature while it has received significant recognition in the United States. We consider sports practice as a way to improve or signal non-cognitive skills endowment. And it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600950