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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this paper analyses the effects of spending part of adolescents' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children...
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Chancengleichheit und lebenslanges Lernen : zur Zukunft der Bildung in Deutschland
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Hinte, Holger - 2012
Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht ungeachtet diverser Reformanstrengungen in der jüngeren Vergangenheit weiter vor großen Herausforderungen: Im internationalen Vergleich fehlt es an sozialer Chancengleichheit im Verlauf der Bildungskarrieren, und für eine "Bildungsnation" nehmen sich die...
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Human capital investments in children: A comparative analysis of the role of parent-child shared time in selected countries
Österbacka, Eva; Merz, Joachim; Zick, Cathleen D. - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290473
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Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
Wößmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The...
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Institutional Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity: German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 230 (2010) 2, pp. 234-270
system, but pursue different education policies. Education production function models are estimated using state-level PISA-E …
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Is Posner right? : an empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men
Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2010
Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
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Informal-formal worker wage gap in Turkey : evidence from a semi-parametric approach
Baskaya, Yusuf Soner; Hulagu, Timur - 2011 - This version: February 25, 2011, (preliminary and incomplete)
and semi-parametric techniques, we test two hypothesis regarding formal and informal labor markets: whether there is a … for formal-informal wage gap within gender groups, the semi-parametric estimates suggest that the observed formal … unemployment rates, the semi-parametric methods show that these gaps are insensitive to unemployment rate variations across regions …
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Does marginal employment promote regular employment for unemployed welfare benefit recipients in Germany?
Lietzmann, Torsten; Schmelzer, Paul; Wiemers, Jürgen - 2016
Marginal employment (ME) is one of the largest forms of atypical employment in Germany. In this study, we analyse whether ME has a "stepping stone" function for unemployed individuals, i.e., whether ME increases the subsequent probability of regular employment. Our study adds to the literature...
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Do temporary workers receive risk-premiums? : assessing the wage effects of fixed-term contracts in West-Germany by matching estimators compared with parametric approaches
Hagen, Tobias - 2001
The wage effects of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are analysed with the GSOEP for West Germany. Different estimators which take into account selection bias are used. It is shown that propensity score matching estimators which are usually applied for the evaluation of active labour market...
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Do fixed-term contracts increase the long-term employment opportunities of the unemployed?
Hagen, Tobias - 2003
The paper investigates whether (unsubsidised) fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are a means of integration for the unemployed in the West German labour market. This is done by analysing whether entering into an FTC improves the employment opportunities of an unemployed person in terms of the...
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