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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002
the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents …
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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation: Evidence for the first 11 years of life
Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - 2010
during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work … characteristics of children. Third, we examine the skill development for girls and boys separately, as well as for children who were …
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior … significant impacts on children's emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and neuroticism. Paternal health seems to be less relevant for … the development of these non-cognitive characteristics. However, we observe that paternal health shocks cause children to …
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Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents
Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008869232
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Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents
Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - 2011
In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise … employment rate and a continuous decline in total fertility rate. We focus especially on how parents' time with their children … non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare the two waves of the Italian Time Use dataset (1988 and 2002 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304321
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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education
Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2006
On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297542
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000
Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297667
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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of social origin as well as of expectations regarding the labour market outcome of a higher education degree and of public educational policy are examined. The estimations are based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297724
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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects
Lauer, Charlotte - 2004
This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297379
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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2007
Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using citizenship to analyze economic issues of immigration may be problematic for two reasons. On the one hand, a quite substantial share of persons with migration background is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297935