Over the course of higher education expansion and growing numbers of graduates, employers are supposed to have increasing difficulties to regard a higher education degree as reliable signal for productivity. As a consequence, they may take into account ‘qualitative’ differences such as...

Der Zusammenhang zwischen Populationsgröße und Bruttoinlandprodukt und der Zahl der olympischen Medaillen eines Landes wurde mehrfach in der Literatur nachgewiesen. Wir zeigen, dass dieser Zusammenhang in der DDR systematisch durchbrochen wurde. Die SEDFührung hat seit etwa 1970 mittels...

The multigenerational social mobility literature is mainly interested in the direct effect of grandparent resources on grandchildren’s outcomes, that is, the effect not transmitted through any parent characteristics. Whereas this literature is ever-expanding, findings were inconclusive about...