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effects of attending a more advanced track in middle school on long-term education and labor market outcomes for Germany, a … favorable long-term outcomes. We attribute this result to the up- and downgrading of students between tracks after middle school … exposure to a less advanced school environment. …
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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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This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongst immigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of second generation immigrants. Using a long panel that oversamples immigrants, we can follow their children after they have...
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of school quality on performance in national exams and the career … achievements, and community variables. We find that, conditional on school type, the pupil-teacher ratio has no effect on … appears to be very robust and sustains when school type variables, exam results, and ability are controlled for …
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made at a relatively early stage: after primary school, at around the age of ten. In this paper, we use micro data to … analyse the association between parents’ education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … and professional class are strongly related to the secondary track school the child follows, and subsequent educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822238
This paper tests the hypothesis that unions, through imposing wage floors that lead to wage compression, increase on-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting context to test this hypothesis, due to its large scale apprenticeship programme and its collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262169
made at a relatively early stage: after primary school, at around the age of ten. In this paper, we use micro data to … analyse the association between parents? education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … and professional class are strongly related to the secondary track school the child follows, and subsequent educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262574
made at a relatively early stage: after primary school, at around the age of ten. In this paper, we use micro data to … analyse the association between parents' education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … and professional class are strongly related to the secondary track school the child follows, and subsequent educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403839
This paper tests the hypothesis that unions, through imposing wage floors that lead to wage compression, increase on-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting context to test this hypothesis, due to its large scale apprenticeship programme and its collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318819
made at a relatively early stage: after primary school, at around the age of ten. In this paper, we use micro data to … analyze the association between parents' education and professional class and secondary track school choice and subsequent … and professional class are strongly related to the secondary track school the child follows, and subsequent educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320788