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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...
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Youth unemployment in Korea : from a German and transitional labour market point of view
Schmid, Günther - 2013
measured by the number of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) in percent of the total youth population. Korea …’s NEET figures are at the top in OECD countries, especially for youth with tertiary education. This paper throws some light … education and vocational training systems that emphasise middle level and market oriented skills are identified as institutional …
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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
success of their children. I exploit a natural experiment that took place in Germany in the year 2000 that reduced the …
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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2014
intergenerational mobility. Furthermore, holding parental education constant, Italian second generation immigrants show no less …
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Making Economic Growth more Socially Inclusive in Germany
Kappeler, Andreas; Hutfilter, Andrés Fuentes - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
While past labour market reforms have been successful in terms of employment, the relative poverty risk and income inequality have remained broadly unchanged in recent years. Some social groups remain particularly vulnerable, including individuals in non-regular employment, the unemployed and...
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The effect of schooling on parental integration : evidence from Germany
Sommerfeld, Ann-Marie - 2023
Exploiting the age-at-enrollment policies in 16 German states as exogenous source of variation, I examine whether the schooling of the oldest child in a migrant household affects parents' integration. My analysis links administrative records on primary school enrollment cutoff dates with micro...
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To work or to study? : postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany - evidence from a choice experiment
Damelang, Andreas; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020
-specific credentials such as vocational education. The choice experiment was introduced in the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees (2020), a … human capital investment model combined with a basic model of educational decisions. Using a choice experiment, we simulate … vocational education is guided by the transferability of foreign human capital, the time horizon to reap investments, and …
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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity: Evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...
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Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Schnepf, Sylke V.; Bastianelli, Elena; Blaskó, Zsuzsa - 2020
Policies supporting international student mobility prepare young people for the challenges of global and multicultural environments. However, disadvantaged students have lower participation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their positive impacts on career progression....
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Impact of universities in a flat hierarchy: Do degrees from top universities lead to a higher wage?
Schwerter, Jakob - 2020
The literature shows a wage premium for graduates from high quality, elite, or more selective universities. The results, however, exist for countries with a clear hierarchy of top universities, such as the US, England, and Australia. I evaluate if such an effect also exists in Germany, a country...
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