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Human capital externalities in Western Germany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2008
The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany … externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of … students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009373720
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Human capital externalities in Western Germany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2007
The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany … externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of … students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009373723
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The role of firm-level and regional human capital for the social returns to education : evidence from German social security data
Braakmann, Nils - 2009
This paper provides first evidence on the anatomy of human capital externalities arising from both firm-level and …-skilled. This finding is in line with learning based theories of human capital externalities. Some estimates also suggest negative …-skilled workers and the regional shares of high-skilled workers. -- Human capital externalities ; social returns to education ; error …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003828791
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Human Capital Externalities in Western Germany
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2012
The paper sheds light on the impact of spatial agglomeration of human capital on individual wages in Western Germany … externalities arising from the regional share of highly qualified workers. Employing the regional number of public schools and of … students as instrumental variables the paper shows that human capital externalities are underestimated in ordinary panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012712781
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Neighborhood effects on productivity : a knowledge spillover analysis using geocoded data
Larsson, Johan P. - 2012 - JIBS Friday seminar draft, June, 1st, 2012, Unpublished manuscript
This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250-by-250 meter (about 0.15 miles), 1 km2, 9 km2 and 100 km2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507866
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Dynamic effects of co-ethnic networks on immigrants' economic success
Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2018
immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862884
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Does job loss make you smoke and gain weight?
Marcus, Jan - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009506495
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Fat chance! : obesity and the transition from unemployment to employment
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011
applicants in Germany get treated or behave differently from non-obese applicants. Based on two waves of rich survey data from … weight women. Obese women who found a job also had significantly lower wages than healthy weight women. -- obesity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309512
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Maternal employment and childhood overweight in Germany
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte - 2015
. As evidence for Germany is still scarce, the purpose of this study is to identify the effect of maternal employment on … childhood overweight in Germany using two sets of representative micro data. Moreover, we explore potential underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335006
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Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002 - 2012 : a decomposition analysis of socio–economic causes
Dang, Rui - 2015
In this paper, we decompose body mass index (BMI) differences between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany … are on average more obese than female Germans; however, there exists no significant difference in obesity among males. Our … significant parts of the obesity disparities between these two groups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339846