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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013
and cast doubt on the use of the self-employed to test signalling theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344606
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Causal effects of educational mismatch in the labor market : conference paper
Kleibrink, Jan - 2013
This paper analyses the causal effects of educational mismatch on wages, individual health and job satisfaction. As educational mismatch is subject to unobserved heterogeneity in all of these fields, different identification strategies are applied to derive causal effects. In the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341095
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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013
-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of … displaced workers with information on the task content of more than 260 occupations, providing a measure of skill mismatch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343781
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Decomposing a matching estimation : correlated unobserved non-random selection, substitution, and causal effects in a large scale ALMP Program in Germany ; conference paper
Brändle, Tobias; Fervers, Lukas; Webel, Carina - 2014 - Preliminary version
perform matching estimations to analyse the treatment effect on the treated. In the cross-section estimation, we find …-participants. Therefore, we combine matching with difference-in-difference estimation (to control for unobserved heterogeneity), Doing so, we … matching estimation can be decomposed into a causal effect (6%-points), correlated unobserved heterogeneity and negative spill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487257
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Human capital externalities vs. substitution effects as determinants of regional wages : evidence from German micro data ; conference paper
Thönnessen, Rasmus - 2014
This article reconsiders the empirical evidence on regional human capital externalities using longitudal survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). It complements the empirical literature on the role of human capital for explaining regional wage differences. Based on the framework...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483267
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Transferability of human capital and immigrant assimilation : an analysis for Germany ; conference paper
Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Kramer, Anica - 2013
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338940
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation ; conference paper
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013 - This version: August 28, 2013, preliminary
We analyze the causal effect of education on old-age cognitive abilities using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. Our outcome variable is the score an individual reaches in an ultra-short intelligence test. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342118
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The university in the age of globalization : rankings, resources and reforms
Bieńkowski, Wojciech (ed.) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009568488
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Validating structural labor supply models : conference paper
Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013 - Work in progress, This version: February 27, 2013
Although discrete hours choice models have become the workhorse in labor supply analyses. Yet, they are often criticized for being a black box due to their numerous underlying modeling assumptions, with respect to, e.g., the functional form, unobserved error components or several exogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340999
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Education promoted secularization : conference paper
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491163