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training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads … general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled …
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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 models. Our main result is that family background still matters despite …
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The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...
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This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable … private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the analysis shows that if a large part of the gender wage gap can be … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender …
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Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children’s economic well-being; i.e. low intergenerational mobility. This study is the first to test this relationship in a between-country and within-country setup; using harmonized micro data from 18...
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might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects … family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors cognitive skills, study characteristics … characteristics, and social capital are found to be important mediators of the family background effects. …
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This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality … participation. In East Germany, the impact of marital sorting on inequality is highly disequalizing irrespective of adjusting for …
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This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
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regional mobility in West Germany but higher occupational mobility in East Germany. The results show that if occupations were …
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