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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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An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth
Anyadike-Danes, Michael; Bjuggren, Carl-Magnus; … - 2014 - Version: 1 October 2014
The contribution of different-sized businesses to job creation continues to attract policymakers’ attention, however, it has recently been recognized that conclusions about size were confounded with the effect of age. We probe the role of size, controlling for age, by comparing the cohorts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437615
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The changing life cycle pattern in female employment : a comparison of Germany and the UK
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Wunderlich, Gaby - 2002
It is often noted that employment rates of females have been rising during the last decades. However, in contrast to men, women are often part-time employed and the allocation of working time over the life-cycle is linked to family formation. In addition, employment rates may differ across skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447839
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Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs
Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2018
This paper investigates the roles psychological biases play in empirically estimated deviations between subjective survival beliefs (SSBs) and objective survival probabilities (OSPs). We model deviations between SSBs and OSPs through age-dependent inverse S-shaped probability weighting functions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816303
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Entry and shakeout in dynamic oligopoly
Hünermund, Paul; Schmidt-Dengler, Philipp; Takahashi, Yuya - 2014
In many industries, the number of firms evolves non-monotonically over time. A phase of rapid entry is followed by an industry shakeout: a large number of firms exit within a short period. We present a simple timing game of entry and exit with an exogenous technological process governing firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457903
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone : a cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459794
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Intra- und intergenerationale Umverteilungseffekte in der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf Basis humankapitaltheoretischer Überlegungen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2008
In der folgenden Studie möchten wir ausgewählte Aspekte von intra- und intergenerationalen Umverteilungseffekten im System der bundesdeutschen Alterssicherung auf der Basis der Humankapitalheorie mit Simulationsmethoden analysieren. Falls es das Ziel der Politik ist, die Ungleichheit des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003650247
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Ungleichheit und die differentiellen Erträge frühkindlicher Bildungsinvestitionen im Lebenszyklus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor);  … - 2008
, im Lebenszyklus die Kosten um ein Vielfaches. Die Abschätzungen deuten darauf hin, dass die ertragreichste Politik zur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608122
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Human capital investment strategies in Europe
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2011
The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011243
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Life-cycle incidence of family policy measures in Germany : evidence from a dynamic microsimulation model
Bonin, Holger; Reuß, Karsten; Stichnoth, Holger - 2015
This paper quantifies the life-cycle incidence of key family policy measures in Germany. The analysis is based on a novel dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated family life-cycles for a base population from the 2009 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529484