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Dynastic inequality compared : multigenerational mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany
Neidhöfer, Guido; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Using harmonized household survey data, we analyse long run social mobility in the US, the UK, and Germany and test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011548051
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Born entrepreneur? : adolescents' personality characteristics and self-employment in adulthood
Viinikainen, Jutta; Heineck, Guido; Böckerman, Petri; … - 2016
Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy), measured in childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454428
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The effect of the intergenerational transmission of noncognitive skills on student performance
Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso - In: Economics of education review 46 (2015), pp. 78-97
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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons
Mäder, Miriam; Riphahn, Regina T.; Schwientek, Caroline; … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 4/5, pp. 355-375
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472687
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Worldviews and intergenerational altruism : empirical evidence for Germany
Akkemik, Kucik Ali; Dittrich, Marcus; Göksal, Koray; … - 2012
and Catholic churches in Germany are less likely to have spoiling love attitude. On the other hand, people who have strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538561
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468427
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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415678
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A new look at intergenerational mobility in Germany compared to the US
Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - 2014 - This version: September 2014
Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of … Germany and the US, reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than the US. I can … distribution in both countries. In Germany this result is mainly driven by a high downward mobility of sons with fathers in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415965
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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416210
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Intergenerational transmission of unemployment : evidence for German sons
Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - 2014
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417486