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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables : conference paper

Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2013

This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality secondary school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their secondary school choice (between ages 10-12) and later when...

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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. …

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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...

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Job search and the age-inequality profile : conference paper

Marotzke, Petra - 2013

Empirical studies find that the age-variance profile of wages is U-shaped. The objective of this paper is to explore the driving forces of the U-shape in a model with search frictions. I introduce endogenous search effort and a fixed retirement age into Cahuc, Postel-Vinay, and Robin s (2006)...

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The impact of teacher skills on student performance across countries

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - 2014 - Preliminary version

Student performance differs greatly across countries, but little is known about the role of teacher quality in explaining these differences. New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing...

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The economic returns to graduating with honors : evidence from law graduates ; conference paper

Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - 2014

This paper studies the causal effects of graduating from university with an honors degree on subsequent labor market outcomes. While a rich body of literature has focused on estimating returns to human capital, few studies have analyzed returns at the very top of the education distribution. We...

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Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West German wage inequality : conference paper

Card, David E.; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - 2013

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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