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Trotz der coronabedingten Kontaktbeschränkungen war die Beteiligung an beruflicher Weiterbildung bis zum Sommer 2020 nicht massiv zurückgegangen. Denn ein Großteil der Maßnahmen konnte dank entsprechender digitaler Angebote dennoch stattfinden. Je nach Beschäftigungsbranche,...
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Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...
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Although apprenticeship training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school-to-work transition of non-college bound students, most studies rely on cross country or cross track comparisons. This study compares apprenticeship training students with non-apprentices within...
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This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities associated with it. Overall, the literature confirms the existence of considerable social, ethnic, gender- and age-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on...
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This study was prepared by Elke Lüdemann while she was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the …
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Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...
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This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...
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Trotz der coronabedingten Kontaktbeschränkungen war die Beteiligung an beruflicher Weiterbildung bis zum Sommer 2020 nicht massiv zurückgegangen. Denn ein Großteil der Maßnahmen konnte dank entsprechender digitaler Angebote dennoch stattfinden. Je nach Beschäftigungsbranche,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671972
This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities associated with it. Overall, the literature confirms the existence of considerable social, ethnic, gender- and age-related inequalities in secondary school track placement. Studies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045061
This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in German elite youth soccer academies. We examine the efficiency of talent selection and the returns to training. Our results indicate a strong effect of players' birth dates on their probability of getting selected - and, thus, a waste of...
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