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Does it pay to move? : returns to regional mobility at the start of the career for tertiary education graduates

Maier, Michael F.; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2016

Decisions taken at the start of one’s career have long-term consequences and one important decision graduates have to …

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Die Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf das Gründungsgeschehen in Deutschland

Gottschalk, Sandra (contributor); … - 2008

Die demografische Entwicklung in Deutschland wird auf mittlere Sicht zu einer nennenswerten Absenkung der bisher für das Gründungsgeschehen bedeutsamen Alterskohorten führen. Diese Studie zeigt durch eine Projektion der gegenwärtigen Strukturen in die Zukunft, dass die demografische...

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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background

Erdsiek, Daniel - 2014

might operate beyond the mechanisms previously analysed. I explore how the family background of university graduates affects …, social capital, financial capital, and aspiration are incorporated into the empirical analysis. Graduates from families with …

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Student employment : advantage or handicap for academic achievement?

Sprietsma, Maresa - 2015

We estimate the effects of student employment on academic performance. Performance is measured by grades achieved one and a half years after entering university. We use the amount of financial aid students receive after application as a source of exogenous variation in the probability or being...

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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013

The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...

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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...

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The effect of relative age in the first grade of primary school on long-Term scholastic results : international comparative evidence using PISA 2003

Sprietsma, Maresa (contributor) - 2007

In this paper, we estimate the effect of pupil's relative age within the first grade of primary school on math and reading test scores at age 15. The main objective is to evaluate the long-term causal effect of relative age in the first grades of primary school on pupil's test in 16 different...

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Field of study, qualification mismatch, and wages : does sorting matter?

Berlingieri, Francesco; Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2014

Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …

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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …

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Is temporary employment a stepping stone for unemployed school leavers?

Goebel, Christian (contributor); … - 2008

Many school-leavers enter the labour market via temporary employment. In this paper we investigate the impact of a temporary employment spell at the start of the career on the transition rate into permanent employment. We compare the case of temporary employment to the hypothetical case of a...

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