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Gernandt, Johannes - 2008

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …

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Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity

Maier, Michael F.; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2008

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to education. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008

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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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008

investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …

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Duration and Intensity of Kindergarten Attendance and Secondary School Track Choice

Landvoigt, Tim; Mühler, Grit; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice in West-Germany …

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Gregariousness, Interactive Jobs and Wages

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2011

, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …

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