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This paper studies heterogeneity in schooling decisions by socio-economic status (SES) in response to a repeal of achievement-based admissions requirements (i.e. binding track recommendations) in Germany's between-school tracking system. The main contribution is to show that while previously...
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rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. … average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12 percentage points overall and by 16 points for children with low …
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shock, children of more exposed fathers have lower education and earnings, lower chances of formal jobs, and are more likely …This paper investigates whether the impact of trade shocks on employment and wages persists across generations. Using … to rely on social assistance. These effects are substantially stronger for children from disadvantaged background …
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The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of … policies on the intergenerational persistence of education in 17 Latin American countries. First, we retrieve detailed … information on school lockdowns and on the policies enacted to support education from home in each country. Then, we use these …
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Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...
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family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors cognitive skills, study characteristics …Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings … might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects …
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family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors cognitive skills, study characteristics …Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings … might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects …
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Unter dem Stichwort "Patchwork-Biografien" wird die Tatsache, dass ein großer Teil der abhängig Beschäftigten ihren erlernten Beruf nicht mehr ausüben, in jüngster Zeit viel diskutiert. Diese Studie liefert einen empirischen Beitrag zur Anatomie der Berufswechsel für westdeutsche Männer...
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Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
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Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269119