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Educational attaintment and returns to education in Germany : an analysis by subject of degree, gender and region
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2005
Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … in addition to GSOEP data, which allows estimating returns to tertiary education separately by subject of degree for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002681891
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Aggregate unemployment decreases individual returns to education
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2006
education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … to education by 0.005 percentage points. This implies that higher skilled employees are better sheltered from labour … regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328091
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Rising wage inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314699
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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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Earnings prospects for people with migration background in Germany
Aldashev, Alisher (contributor);  … - 2007
Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003527626
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
introduced in 2011. Additional investments into secondary education will, as a rule, not cause life time income to raise enough … to compensate its costs. -- Early education ; demographic change ; inequality over the life span ; redistributive policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732726
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Imputation rules for the implementation of the pre-unication education variable in the BASiD data set
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Nolte, André - 2016
different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on … education-related periods that are creditable for the Pension Insurance. Combining these periods with information on the … (overpredict) the share of high-skilled (low-skilled) for the oldest age groups. Comparing our imputed education variable with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441089
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Heterogeneous returns to training an analysis with German data using local instrumental variables
Kuckulenz, Anja (contributor); Maier, Michael (contributor) - 2006
Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003268906
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Educational opportunities and the role of institutions
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2005
Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002906297
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Imputation rules to improve the education variable in the IAB employment subsample
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2005
The education variable in the IAB employment subsample has two shortcomings: missing values and inconsistencies with … multiple education information available in the data because the employees' education is reported at least once a year. We …: educational composition of employment, wage inequality, and wage regression. We find, that correcting the education variable: (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002591088