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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen … here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion … general instruction yields an earnings premium that cannot compensated by a vocational degree. Moreover, education affects the …

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...

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Double Standards in Educational Standards: Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?

Himmler, Oliver; Schwager, Robert - 2007

A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are disadvantaged on the labour market applies less demanding standards because such students have less incentives to graduate. The model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level...

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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2007

Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...

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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2007

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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany

Mühlenweg, Andrea Maria - 2007

This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...

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Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2008

education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …

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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Schwager, Robert - 2008

A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...

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A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298115

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