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Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education
Fahr, Rene - 2021
Using detailed time use data for Germany a positive correlation is found between the level of schooling education and … time investments in informal education. Two hypotheses explain this observation: (1) highly educated people have higher … education is derived in a household production model accounting for both explanations. An empirical investigation finds evidence …
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325999
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Does higher education help immigrants find a job? A survival analysis
Brück-Klingberg, Andrea; Burkert, Carola; Garloff, Alfred - 2011
We analyse the role that education signals play in the transition rates from unemployment to finding a job. We compare … have similar transition rates. Finally, if education signals are acquired in Germany, the differences between all three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286661
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Naturalisation and investments in children's human capital : evidence from a natural experiment
Haaren-Giebel, Friederike von - 2016 - This version: 18 February 2016
This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that citizenship is associated with lower return migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488963
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Parental investments and socio-economic gradients in learning across European countries
Carneiro, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024
Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...
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The impact of participation in sports on educational attainment : new evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631438
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Einführung in die ökonomische Theorie von Bildung, Arbeit und Produktion
Mattern, Cornelia; Weißhuhn, Gernot - 1980 - 1. Aufl.
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Allocative efficiency, plant dynamics and regional productivity : evidence from Germany
Bruhn, Simon; Grebel, Thomas - 2023
This paper argues that regional variation in the efficiency of labor allocation among German manufacturing plants plays a critical role in explaining regional disparities in productivity. In fact, we show that over 50% of the East-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor...
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Agenda 2020: Strategien für eine Politik der Vollbeschäftigung
Schneider, Hilmar; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
vor: (1) Bildungsreform: Das Bildungssystem muss der Bedeutung frühkindlicher Bildung stärker Rechnung tragen als bisher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331492