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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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This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential … from parents to their children, there are large discrepancies with respect to the age group and the type of skill. The … personality traits (Big Five, locus of control) on their adolescent and young adult children's traits with the effects of parental …
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societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health …, taking into account counterfactual care modes. Our results suggest null or negative effects on children's outcomes: If … children three years and older are in full-time daycare or school and, in addition, cared for by grandparents, they have more …
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of the influence of family on children’s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as confirmed by decomposition analyses and … in line with previous findings on educational and income mobility. …
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activities are explained by two factors: (i) that center care replaces time that parents spend with the child but are doing other …
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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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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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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011634978
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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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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