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Lower and Upper Bounds of Returns on Schooling : An Exercise in IV Estimation with Different Instruments
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Ichino, Andrea - 1999
-to-treatment mechanism implied by the instrument. We show evidence for Germany suggesting that returns to schooling are heterogeneous … can be used to approximate the range of variations of returns to schooling in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206039
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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War Ii
Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2002
An important component of the long run cost of a war is the loss of human capital suffered by school age children who receive less education because of the war. We show that Austrian and German individuals who were ten years old during or immediately after the conflict received less education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115080
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Comparative analysis of the renturns to education in Germany and Hungary (2000)
Hámori, Szilvia (contributor) - 2005
regression in order to give a comprehensive picture of the returns to education in Germany and Hungary for the year 2000. To make … field of study groups for Germany and Hungary respectively are estimated in order to shed more light on the valuation of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435257
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La distinction reloaded : returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany
Krenz, Astrid - 2010
background in Germany. Bourdieu basically explains that family background leads to acquire specific levels of manners, attitudes … education all over the world already exists, however, studies for Germany, and in particular studies that focuss on the relation … motivation. Males do get more education than women. Educational policy in Germany should concentrate on enhancing access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008666587
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Does less wage compression lead to less training in Germany? : an expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of training in imperfect labor markets
Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455316
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Zero returns to compulsory schooling in Germany : evidence and interpretation
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen (contributor);  … - 2005
the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries. -- human capital ; returns to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003086393
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Smoking and Returns to Education − Empirical Evidence for Germany
Reilich, Julia - 2012
Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113212
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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany : Evidence and Interpretation
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till - 2021
the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318425
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321313
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Over-education and immigrant earnings: a penalized quantile panel regression analysis
Maani, Sholeh A.; Wen, Le - 2021
Despite evidence that immigrants experience a higher incidence of over-education, relatively few studies have considered the labour market outcomes of over-education for immigrants. Using longitudinal data and penalized quantile panel regression, we inspect the earnings effects of job mismatches...
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