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The prospects of the Baby Boomers: Methodological challenges in projecting the lives of an aging cohort
Westermeier, Christian; Rasner, Anika; Grabka, Markus M. - 2012
-course information. Exploiting the advantages of the projected data, the authors compare the returns to education - measured in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324277
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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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The Prospects of the Baby Boomers: Methodological Challenges in Projecting the Lives of an Aging Cohort
Westermeier, Christian; Rasner, Anika; Grabka, Markus M. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
. Exploiting the advantages of the projected data, the authors compare the returns to education - measured in terms of pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010787014
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves: Language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants
Schüller, Simone - 2012
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286904
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Kick it like Özil? Decomposing the native-migrant education gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290727
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128954
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Kick It Like Özil?: Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap
Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128956
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Economic growth evens-out happiness: Evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fléche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334229
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The great happiness moderation
Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287229