characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity) and family background (household characteristics and parental education). We handle and …

Using EU-SILC data for 2005 and 2011, we compare the role of family background on labour outcomes in three EU countries … that experienced large swings in unemployment during this period. We use a multidimensional family background indicator … that avoids undesirable cohort effects. Our results suggest that family background affects employment prospects and job …

potential productivity losses at the macro and the micro level. This study explores how the family background of German … pathways of the family background effects are discussed and proxy variables for the mediating factors ability and skills, study … characteristics, and social capital are important mediators of the family background effects. …

We propose a twin family model linking twins with their spouses and children to quantify the relative importance of … reveals that shared environments explain 50% for earnings, 60% for income, 70% for wealth, and 80% for schooling. Family …

instrumental variable and non-causal naïve estimation approaches. Key findings from our meta-analysis suggest an overall impact of … statistical evidence that education-related policy factors are driving the results more than family background factors. …

siblings share (i.e., family background and neighborhood effects). The average is 28 percent. Hence, entrepreneurship is far …Promoting entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important part of the policy agenda in many countries. The … success of such policies, however, rests in part on the assumption that entrepreneurship outcomes are not fully determined at …