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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market
Devereux, Paul J. - 2014
essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414158
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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market
Devereux, Paul J. - 2019
essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … outcomes of their children. Interventions that encourage the educational attainment of children from poorer families will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131034
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection on unobserved skills : new evidence
Hebsaker, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-9
, specifically their educational improvement in comparison to their parents' level of education. Next, the estimates are compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506884
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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743598
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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
The paper investigates determinants of formal and non-formal continuous vocational training and its income effects … on income are rather small or equal to zero with the self-employed and rather high among employed workers, both in the … group of trainees and non-trainees. Non-formal training has a non-zero effect on income as well. The determinants of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428288
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Understanding gender differences in stem : evidence from college applications
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125011
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Choosing differently? : college application behavior and the persistence of educational advantage
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219789
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Math matters! : the importance of mathematical and verbal skills for degree performance
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2019
We find that mathematics skills have a stronger relationship to university performance than verbal skills. While both are predictive of degree completion and class of degree obtained, mathematics skills have a larger effect, and are particularly predictive of achieving a first-class honours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137487
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Learning to take risks? : the effect of education on risk-taking in financial markets
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; … - In: Review of finance : journal of the European Finance … 22 (2018) 3, pp. 951-975
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005260
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for … reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation … transition until 2080. If policy aims at reducing the inequality of lifetime income among people of the same generation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732726