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Mobilisierung alternativer Finanzressourcen: Erfahrungen mit der Einführung von Studiengebühren: Vortrag bei der Tagung 'Quoi de neuf sur l'Allemagne? Les universités allemandes en...

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2008

Der vorgestellte Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die gegenwärtige Hochschulfinanzierung in Deutschland; kürzlich haben einige Bundesländer Studiengebühren eingeführt, die zu einer teilweisen Finanzierung der Studienkosten beitragen sollen. Im II. Kapitel werden außerdem kurz die...

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Education return and financing: Donated affluence as consequence of tuition free study programs in Germany

Petersen, Hans-Georg; Kirchner, Markus - 2008

The paper sheds some light on the education returns in Germany in the post war period. After describing higher education in Germany the current stand of higher education financing within the single states is presented. In six states tuition fees will be introduced in 2007/08 and discussions are...

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Poverty, human capital, life-cycle and the tax and transfer bases: The role of education for development and international competition

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2011

primary, secondary and tertiary education programs for the children, the transfer expenditure would decrease and the tax bases …

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Theories of the Family and Policy

Jacobsen, Veronica; Fursman, Lindy; Bryant, John; … - 2004

Policy interventions that affect or are mediated through the family typically assume a behavioural response. Policy analyses proceeding from different disciplinary bases may come to quite different conclusions about the effects of policies on families, depending how individuals within families...

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On the Heterogeneity in Longevity among Socioeconomic Groups: Scope, Trends, and Implications for Earnings-Related Pension Schemes

Ayuso, Mercedes; Bravo, Jorge Miguel; Holzmann, Robert - 2016

Heterogeneity in longevity between socioeconomic groups is increasingly documented for developed economies and is reviewed in the paper. Heterogeneity in life expectancy disaggregated by main socioeconomic characteristics – such as age, gender, race, health, education, profession, income, and...

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Career Consequences of Firm Heterogeneity for Young Workers: First Job and Firm Size

Arellano-Bover, Jaime - 2020

I study the long-term effects of landing a first job at a large firm versus a small one using Spanish social security data. Size could be a relevant employer attribute for inexperienced workers since large firms are associated with greater training, higher wages, and enhanced productivity. The...

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Accounting for investment risk in educational decisions: New evidence for lifetime returns in Germany

Zühlke, Anne; Kugler, Philipp; Hackenberger, Armin; … - 2020

We analyse the economic returns in lifetime labour income of different educational paths in Germany, especially the difference between university studies and vocational training. New data allows us to calculate cumulative labour earnings at different ages and to compare not only the highest...

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Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime income

Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - 2012

In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...

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A Family of Flexible Parametric Duration Functions & their Applications to Modelling Child-Spacing in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ghilagaber, Gebrenegus; Gyimah, Stephen Obeng - 2004

The birth-interval approach to the study of fertility reflects two aspects of the process of reproduction: (1) the … quantum of fertility as indicated by the proportion of women who move to the next higher parity; and (2) the tempo of … fertility, as measured by the time it takes to make the transition for those women who continue reproduction. This paper focuses …

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Fertility Response to Childhood Mortality in Sub-Saharan with Emphasis on Ghana and Kenya

Gyimah, Stephen Obeng-Manu - 2002

persistence of high fertility in sub-Saharan Africa. Although fertility behaviour depends on multiplicity of factors, childhood … mortality affect fertility are well understood, the empirical evidence has been inconsistent. Thus, the unsettled nature of the … link between childhood mortality and fertility was a major motivation for this study. Methodologically, the paper examines …

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