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Life expectancy and parental education in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2019
vocational training nor the occupational position of the parents in childhood, which both correlate with household income, can … Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children's life … expectancy - even after controlling for children's own level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as …
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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? : on the relationship between basic skills and earnings
Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012
Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009624364
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010 - Rev. version
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826484
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The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables
Freier, Ronny; Storck, Johanna - 2012
analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study in which we observe children when they make their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687901
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Effectiveness of data correction rules in process-produced data : the case of educational attainment
Kruppe, Thomas; Matthes, Britta; Unger, Stefanie - 2014
The use of process-produced data plays a large and growing role in empirical labor market research. To address data problems, previous research have developed deductive correction rules that make use of within-person information. We test data reliability and the effectiveness of different...
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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009
We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634978
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008 - Revised version
This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place. In order to tackle the issues...
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Heterogeneity in marginal returns to language training of immigrants
Giesecke, Matthias; Schuß, Eric - 2019
We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to instrument endogenous participation. Estimating marginal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012065124
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The myth of equal opportunity in Germany?
Consiglio, Valentina S.; Sologon, Denisa M. - 2019
children with a non-academic family background are still unequally obstructed. When analysing the labour market implications of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123530
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Sinkende Bildungsrenditen durch Bildungsreformen? : Evidenz aus Mikrozensus und SOEP
Göggel, Kathrin - 2007
Die Bildungsreformen der sechziger Jahre sollten das Bildungsniveau der Westdeutschen anheben. Die Analyse der Daten …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628733