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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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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,...

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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 …

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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009

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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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Apprenticeship, vocational training and early labor market outcomes : in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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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 …

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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 …

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Locus of control and investment in training

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Seitz, Helke; … - 2016

This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with...

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The wider benefits of adult learning : work-related training and social capital

Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2018

We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...

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