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Does the early bird catch the worm? : Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - 2006
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The effect of age at school entry on educational attainment in Germany
Fertig, Michael (contributor); Kluve, Jochen (contributor) - 2005
Determining the optimal age at which a child should enter school is a controversial topic in education policy. In particular, German policy makers, pedagogues, parents, and teachers have since long discussed whether the traditional, established age of school entry at 6 years remains appropriate....
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The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms
Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003
While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of different training forms and about the effects for heterogeneous training participants. This study therefore adds two aspects to the literature on earnings effects of training. First,...
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Continuing Vocational Training in Germany: A Comparative Study Using 3 German Data Set
Kuckulenz, Anja - 2006
Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training. This makes comparison of econometric analyses of the impact of training on labour market outcomes di?cult. Three large German data sets are used here to bring to light the data...
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Wage and Productivity Effect of Continuing Training in Germany: A Sectoral Analysis
Kuckulenz, Anja - 2006
Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb-Douglas production framework. Using system GMM...
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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 2000
Investitionen in Weiterbildung werden typischerweise durch die erwartete Zunahme individueller Fähigkeiten motiviert … informeller beruflicher Weiterbildung abhängt, und welche Auswirkungen diese auf den individuellen Arbeitsverdienst in einer … zwischen abhängigen und selbständig Erwerbstätigen. Selbständige, so die Hypothese, tragen die Kosten der Weiterbildung selbst …
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The Returns to Continuous Training in Germany: New Evidence from Propensity Score Matching Estimators
Muehler, Grit; Beckmann, Michael; Schauenberg, Bernd - 2007
The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs using individual-level data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to account for selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment effects (ATE and ATT) of general and firm-specific...
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A New Approach to estimate the Wage Returns to Work-related Training
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2002
This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training.The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration theworkers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some randomevent. The point estimate of the return to...
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Bildung und Qualifikation als Grundlage der technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands: Bericht des Konsortiums "Bildungsindikatoren und technologische Leistungsfähigkeit"
Leszczensky, Michael; Helmrich, Robert; Frietsch, Rainer; … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630128
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Bildung und Qualifikation als Grundlage der technologischen Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands: Bericht des Konsortiums "Bildungsindikatoren und technologische Leistungsfähigkeit"
Leszczensky, Michael; Frietsch, Rainer; Gehrke, Birgit; … - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630146