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Unemployment and social exclusion
Pohlan, Laura - 2018
on German linked survey and administrative data. To study the causal relationship between unemployment and multiple … effects of job loss are long-lasting, growing more profound the longer the duration of unemployment and persisting following …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855343
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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2005
professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … linear matching based on the estimated propensity score to estimate the average treatment effect on the treated of SPST … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003224334
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Regionenmatching im Rahmen der Evaluation der Experimentierungsklausel des § 6c SGB II : methodische Vorgehensweise und Ergebnisse
Arntz, Melanie (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor);  … - 2006
wir alle individuellen und regionenspezifischen Determinanten, die einen Einfluss auf die Länge der Arbeitslosigkeit haben …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003370041
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Individual determinants of inventor productivity : report and preliminary results with evidence from linked human capital and patent data
Frosch, Katharina; Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015
This report offers new insights into the drivers of inventor productivity at the individual level. It includes well-known drivers, such as inventor age and education, and controls for inventor team size, and firm/applicant information, as well as period and technology field effects derived from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459620
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The effect of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Laucht, Manfred (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child's attention span, approach, prevailing mood and distractibility in early childhood may be crucial predictors for school achievements, health risk behavior, delinquency and autonomy as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793903
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871339
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Geduld von Vorschulkindern : Ergebnisse einer Experimentalstudie im Haushaltskontext von Kindern
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Fischer, Barbara; Kosse, … - 2009
In dieser Studie werden anhand einer experimentellen Datenerhebung im Rahmen der deutschen Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) mögliche Determinanten des Belohnungsaufschubs im Alter von fünf bis sechs Jahren untersucht (im Folgenden als „Geduld bei Kindern“ bezeichnet)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902933
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Noncognitive skills in economics : models, measurement, and empirical evidence
Thiel, Hendrik; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2009
There is an increasing economic literature considering personality. This paper provides an overview on the role of these skills regarding three main aspects of economic analysis: measurement, theoretical modeling, and empirical estimates. Based on the relevant literature from different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903035
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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447754
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919076