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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to schooling. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279259
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019
intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012036709
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection on unobserved skills: New evidence
Hebsaker, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-9
, specifically their educational improvement in comparison to their parents' level of education. Next, the estimates are compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518466
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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education: Simulation Based Evidence
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566740
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Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097739
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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany
Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018
their countries of origin. This phenomenon is even more pronounced for parental education. It is demonstrated that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911965
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Educational Expansion and Its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades … both approaches produce estimates of average returns to education that decrease until the late 1990s and increase … afterwards. The gender gap in returns to education seems to vanish. Furthermore, we find that the so-called "baby boomer" cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018725
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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany
Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 53 (2019) 8, pp. 1-14
education. It is demonstrated that individual human capital influences short-run integration outcomes in Germany. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208429
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008 - Revised version
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades … both approaches produce estimates of average returns to education that decrease until the late 1990s and increase … afterwards. The gender gap in returns to education seems to vanish. Furthermore, we find that the so-called "baby boomer" cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628750