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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840590
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Family and gender still matter : the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Isabel; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2002 - Revised September 2002
Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447744
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Educational opportunities and the role of institutions
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2005
opportunities by schooling institutions. A difference-in-differences estimation approach is applied to control for country … more instruction time limits the impact of social origin on student performance. Higher school autonomy increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002906297
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Violence in European schools : victimization and consequences
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2007
Violence at schools is a well-known problem in many societies. This paper assesses the degree of school violence in 11 … the international TIMSS 2003 and the British longitudinal NCDS data. The level of school violence is high in most … important peer effect that should not be omitted in the estimation of educational production functions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003412058
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Peer effects in European primary schools : evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314712
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Education and wage inequality in Germany : a review of the empirical literature
Ammermüller, Andreas; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2003
This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the link between education and wage inequality in Germany. The wage inequality is characterized by its stability, although a more detailed analysis reveals structural differences, especially between East and West Germany. Both the between and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448534
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Entwicklung und Ungleichheit von Fähigkeiten: Anmerkungen aus ökonomischer Sicht
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2009
Nirgends sonst im ökonomischen Handeln fallen Kosten und Nutzen im Zeitablauf und aufgeteilt nach Investoren und Nutznießern so eklatant auseinander wie bei Bildungsinvestitionen. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass in der sozialen Realität die Bildungsungleichheit im...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846092
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Would you marry me? : The effects of marriage on German couples' allocation of time
El Lahga, AbdelRahmen (contributor);  … - 2007
Living arrangements have undergone considerable change in recent decades. In most Western countries marriage is no longer the exclusive context of family formation. In the United States (US) for instance, the number of unmarried couples nearly doubled in the 1990s, from 3:2 million couples in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003461270
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Ganztagsschulen und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern : eine Mikrosimulationsstudie für Deutschland
Beblo, Miriam (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003243039
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Self-productivity in early childhood
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor) - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003567065