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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias

Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - 2021

Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate …

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Identifying the Determinants of Attitudes Towards Immigrants : A Structural Cross-Country Analysis

Fertig, Michael; Brenner, Jan - 2021

Utilizing subjective data to infer on fundamental issues of individual opinion is associated with severe conceptual and methodological problems. This paper addresses these problems and investigates the attitudes towards immigrants within a cross-country framework. To this end, we utilize data...

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Neighborhood Effects and Individual Unemployment

Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011

Using a unique dataset for Germany that links individual longitudinal data from the GSOEP to regional data from the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119023

The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation

Fertig, Michael - 2009

effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the …

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A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany

Corak, Miles; Fertig, Michael; Tamm, Marcus - 2021

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001 … focuses upon comparisons between East and West Germany, by family structure, and citizenship status. Child poverty rates have … the incidence of child poverty and its dynamics between East and West Germany …

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The Effect of Age at School Entry on Educational Attainment in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2021

effect of age at school entry on educational attainment for West and East Germany. Empirical results from linear probability …

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Shot Across the Bow, Stigma or Selection? The Effect of Repeating a Class on Educational Attainment

Fertig, Michael - 2021

The German practice of compelling weak students to repeat a class has come under heavy criticism recently. Many observers fear that this practice is, at best, useless or even counterproductive. However, little is known so far on the consequences of having to repeat a class, as compared to be...

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The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany

Fertig, Michael - 2021

This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated into German society by …

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A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2021

Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To this end, (a) many of the existing instruments of active labor market policy are modified...

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Who's to Blame? The Determinants of German Students' Achievement in the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael - 2021

The publication of the OECD report on the PISA 2000 study induced a public outcry in Germany. On average, German … Germany to the survey. The results of several quantile regression analyses demonstrate that many popular explanations, like …

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