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Intergenerational Social Mobility and Assortative Mating in Britain

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2002

This paper investigates the links between the socio-economic position of parents and the socio-economic position of their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socioeconomic position of their offspring?s parents-in-law. Using the Goldthorpe-Hope score of occupational prestige as a...

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Successful Apprenticeship-to-Work Transitions: On the Long-Term Change in Significance of the German School-Leaving Certificate

Büchel, Felix - 2002

leavers with lower levels of general education are selected into apprenticeships with less favorable employment prospects in … lower academic achievers are further penalized for the shortcomings in their general education at the apprenticeship …-towork transition. Furthermore, the crowding-out of trainees with lower levels of general education can be observed in both the less …

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How different are wages from wage potentials? : Analyzing the earnings disadvantage of immigrants in Germany

Lang, Günter - 2004

Immigrants in Germany display a poor earnings performance relative to natives. Arguing that human capital endowments identify earnings potentials rather than actual earnings, this paper estimates a stochastic earnings frontier and searches for systematic differences between natives and migrants...

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Severance Payments for Dismissed Employees in Germany

Grund, Christian - 2004

This contribution investigates severance payments for dismissed employees in Germany. Particularly, it responds to the following questions: Who receives severance payments? By which characteristics is the level of severance payments determined? Is overcompensation to be considered a relevant...

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Why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

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Why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

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Growth and enduring epidemic diseases

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - 2006

This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...

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Human capital and the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle

Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2007

In this paper we reexamine the Feldstein-Horioka finding of limited international capital mobility by using a broader view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to this change.

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Redistribution or education?: the political economy of the social race

Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2007

vote on two issues: redistributive policies for them and education investments for their kids. Public education is the … may exchange their positions with kids born from rich families. This is because education reduces the probability of the … voting. When the poor are more politically influent, the economy is characterized by a higher level of education, growth and …

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The rise of individual performance pay

Kvaloy, Ola; Olsen, Trond - 2007

Why does individual performance pay seem to prevail in human capital intensive industries? We present a model that may explain this. In a repeated game model of relational contracting, we analyze the conditions for implementing peer dependent incentive regimes when agents possess indispensable...

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