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The returns to ability and experience in high school labor markets : revisiting evidence on employer learning and statistical discrimination
Li, Xizi; Ross, Stephen L. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965260
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How risky is investment in human capital?
Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004
skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335192
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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Quantifying the role of firms in intergenerational mobility
Castro Dobbin, Cauê de; Zohar, Tom - 2023
the firm component is responsible for 22% of the overall IGE. We then explore potential mechanisms and find that education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427587
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Micro foundations of earnings differences
Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2017
estimating individual-specific earnings function parameters. The paper finds one's ability to learn and one's ability to retain … two types of ability. However, schools may also implement ability enhancing interventions which can play a role in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709811
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Graduate migration, self-selection and urban wage premiums across the regional hierarchy
Eliasson, Kent; Westerlund, Olle - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193464
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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
ability are higher in higher control environments. This provides a theoretical underpinning for the control-based explanation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011378332
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Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence among German Workers
Eisenhauer, Philipp; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018704
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Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Eisenhauer, Philipp - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097894
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Assessing Intergenerational Earnings Persistence Among German Workers
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Eisenhauer, Philipp - 2008
In this study we assess the relationship between father and son earnings among (West) German Workers. To reduce the lifecycle and attenuation bias a novel sampling procedure is developed and applied to the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2006. Our preferred point estimate indicates that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298023