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Paternal unemployment during childhood : causal effects on youth worklessness and educational attainment

Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline - 2016

Using long-running data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-2012), we investigate the impact of paternal …

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The intergenerational transmission of occupational preferences, segregation, and wage inequality : empirical evidence from three countries

Eberharter, Veronika V. - 2012

differentials in Germany, Great Britain, and the United States. Notwithstanding the country differences concerning welfare state …

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Personality as Predictor of Occupational Choice : Empirical Evidence from Germany

Nieken, Petra - 2011

‐Economic Panel. We conduct multinomial logit analyses to differentiate male managers, professionals, technicians, clerks, service …

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Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background

Erdsiek, Daniel - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 3, pp. 253-268

Overqualification signals a mismatch between jobs’ educational requirements and workers’ qualifications implying potential productivity losses at the macro and the micro level. This study explores how the family background of German graduates affects the probability to hold a job that does...

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Does intergenerational mobility increase corporate profits?

Albertus, James F.; Smolyansky, Michael - 2019

We find that firms located in areas with higher intergenerational mobility are more profitable. Building off the work of Chetty and Hendren (2018a and 2018b)—who provide measures of intergenerational mobility for all commuting zones (essentially, metropolitan areas) within the U.S.—we are...

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Inequality in personality over the life cycle

Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020

We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic...

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Transmission channels of intergenerational income mobility : empirical evidence from Germany and the Unites States

Coban, Mustafa; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2017

Relying on harmonized individual data for Germany and the United States, we perform a country comparison regarding the … intergenerational income mobility in Germany, endowments account for solely 30 percent in the United States. Nonlinearities in the … relative importance across income percentiles. In Germany, there are no significant nonlinearities at all. …

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Linguistic skills and the intergenerational transmission of language

Caminal, Ramón; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Di Paolo, Antonio - 2018

language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural …

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Linguistic skills and the intergenerational transmission of language

Caminal, Ramón; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Di Paolo, Antonio - 2018

language affects language skills as well as the language parents speak to their children. Empirically, we exploit the natural …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906199

Overqualification of graduates : assessing the role of family background

Erdsiek, Daniel - 2014

Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...

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