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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. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628750
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Berufliche Weiterbildung und Existenzgründung
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 1999
In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im … self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442433
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Causal returns to schooling and individual heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 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/10009545261
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936437
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Gregariousness, interactive jobs and wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008901534
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2008
This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on …. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in Germany for all workers and for prime age dependent male workers as well …. Rising inequality is not the result of the recent rise in self-employment. In West Germany rising inequality occurred in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727132
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Gregariousness, Interactive Jobs and Wages
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Schulz, Nico Johannes - 2011
, to the best of our knowledge for the first time for Germany, gregariousness and social interaction at the workplace and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184475
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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008
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/10014052084
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Causal Returns to Schooling and Individual Heterogeneity
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 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/10013104973
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Educational Expansion and its Heterogeneous Returns for Wage Workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018
The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052554