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How a universal music education program affects time use, behavior, and school attitude
Hille, Adrian - 2015
music education programs are becoming increasingly popular among policy makers in Germany and other developed countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441643
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The influence of personality traits on private retirement savings in Germany
Schäfer, Konrad C. - 2016
by personality traits. With the 2002 to 2009 cross section of the Socio-Economic Panel for Germany (SOEP), it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538182
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537
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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration : the case of occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011
into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008936432
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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern
Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825071
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Analyzing zero returns to education in Germany : heterogeneous effects and skill formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010197409
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Impacts of parental health shocks on children's non-cognitive skills
Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2013 - Version: 02.02.2013
We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713175
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How learning a musical instrument affects the development of skills
Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013
Despite numerous studies on skill development,we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality, time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190185
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Locus of control and low-wage mobility
Schnitzlein, Daniel D.; Stephani, Jens - 2013
We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010190193
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The impact of education on personality : evidence from a German high school reform
Dahmann, Sarah; Anger, Silke - 2014
traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360371