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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills

Adda, Jerome - 2013

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

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Career progression, economic downturns, and skills

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - 2013

This paper analyses the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787956

Ethnic Minority Immigrants and their Children in Britain

Dustmann, Christian; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2006

According to the 2001 UK Census ethnic minority groups account for 4.6 million or 7.9 percent of the total UK population. The 2001 British Labour Force Survey indicates that the descendants of Britain's ethnic minority immigrants form an important part of the British population (2.8 percent) and...

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Return Migration, Investment in Children, and Intergenerational Mobility : Comparing Sons of Foreign and Native Born Fathers

Dustmann, Christian - 2007

This paper studies parental investment in education and intergenerational earnings mobility for father-son pairs with native and foreign born fathers. We illustrate within a simple model that for immigrants, investment in their children is related to their return migration probability. In our...

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Class Size, Education, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian; Rajah, Najma; Soest, Arthur van - 2021

This paper examines the effects of class size on the decision to stay on in full time schooling at the age of 16 and on wages at later stages in life. Little research exists on the effect of school quality on career decisions, although it has potentially important long term implications. We use...

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Class size, education, and wages

Dustmann, Christian; Rajah, Najma; Soest, Arthur van - 2002

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Class size, education, and wages

Dustmann, Christian; Rajah, Najma; Soest, Arthur van - 2002

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Part-Time Work, School Success and School Leaving

Dustmann, Christian; Rajah, Najma; Soest, Arthur van - 1998

This paper analyses the labour supply decisions of a cohort of 16 year-olds who were born in 1958 in England and Wales. It traces through the effects of part-time employment by teenagers still in full-time education on subsequent academic performance and school leaving decisions within a three...

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Class Size, Education, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian; Rajah, Najma; van Soest, Arthur - 2002

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The long-term effects of early track choice

Dustmann, Christian; Puhani, Patrick A.; Schönberg, Uta - 2014

Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of … misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of the tracking decision. This paper investigates the … country with a very rigorous tracking system where the risk of misallocating students to tracks is, due to the early age at …

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