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Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools

Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2017

outcomes for students in Lower Track Secondary Schools in Germany. We find mostly insignificant effects of the treatment on … average outcomes, which mask quite heterogeneous effects. For those students, who are taking extra coursework to continue …. In contrast, educational outcomes improve for students who do not take extra coursework. Hence, the treatment causes a …

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Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Mother Tongue-Based Education on Reading Skills and Early Labour Market Outcomes

Argaw, Bethlehem - 2016

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in Ethiopia's primary schools was the official language (Amharic) - the mother tongue of only one third of the population. This paper uses the variation in individual's exposure to...

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Impacts of Parental Health Shocks on Children's Non-Cognitive Skills

Westermaier, Franz; Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2013

We examine how parental health shocks affect children’s non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health … shocks in the previous three years have significant negative effects on children’s behavioral outcomes. The most serious of …

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany : Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - 2008

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables one 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....

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Earnings Prospects for People With Migration Background in Germany

Aldashev, Alisher; Gernandt, Johannes; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2008

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...

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Earnings of University Dropouts Across Europe

Berlingieri, Francesco; Bolz, Theresa - 2021

This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less...

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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010

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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Educational Attainment and Returns to Education in Germany

Ammermueller, Andreas; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2008

This paper presents evidence on the development of educational attainment and its returns on the labor market in Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze micro-census data in addition to GSOEP data, which allows estimating...

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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood

Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills and health acquired at one stage in the life cycle enhance skills and health formation at later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Training an Analysis with German Data Using Local Instrumental Variables

Kuckulenz, Anja - 2018

Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...

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