Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at … one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical … investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …

This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three … years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life …

In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior …. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of … health variation to identify these effects and control for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …

East and West Germany. Our results are based on static and dynamic panel econometrics/criminometrics. They confirm the …

This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz ….S. and Germany but there were various country specific aspects of this increase. For the U.S., we find faster wage growth … Germany. Moreover, we see a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort effects in the U …