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Technological change and skill obsolescence: the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996
The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567609
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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?
Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2014
Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420400
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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages: Does sorting matter?
Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957739
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2008
Language proficiency may not only affect the earnings of the individual, but the probability to participate in the labor market or becoming employed as well. It may also affect selection of people into economic sector and occupation. In this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298666
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Language proficiency may not only affect the earnings of the individual, but the probability to participate in the labor market or becoming employed as well. It may also affect selection of people into economic sector and occupation. In this paper, the effects of language proficiency on earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098179
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Social infrastructure and productivity of manufacturing firms: Evidence from Pakistan
Ahmed, Riaz - 2016
Does investment in social infrastructure affect the productivity of manufacturing firms in developing countries? To test this question, I empirically investigate the impact of social infrastructure indicators at district level on firm productivity using firm level data from Pakistan. I split my...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460765
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Trade shocks and social mobility: The intergenerational effect of import competition in Brazil
César, Andrés; Ciaschi, Matías; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
This paper investigates whether the impact of trade shocks on employment and wages persists across generations. Using survey data with retrospective information on parental employment, we study the causal effect of increased Chinese import competition in Brazilian industries on individuals with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426908
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Intergenerational mobility of education in Europe: Geographical patterns, cohort-linked measures, and the innovation nexus
McNamara, Sarah; Neidhöfer, Guido; Lehnert, Patrick - 2024
We estimate intergenerational mobility of education for people born 1940-1999 at the subnational level for 40 European countries. The result is a panel of mobility indices for 105 mesoregions (NUTS1), and 215 microregions (NUTS2). We use these indices to make three contributions. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470222
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The Geographical Mobility of Unemployed Workers: Evidence from West Germany
Arntz, Melanie - 2005
Using a competing-risk framework of exiting unemployment to jobs in a local or a distant labor market area, this paper investigates whether unemployed individuals in West Germany choose search strategies that favor migrating out of declining regions. Moreover, the paper investigates how such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297440
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Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions
Ammermüller, Andreas - 2005
Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297451