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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany

Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019

We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of … that there exists positive skill selection among recently arrived refugees in Germany. …

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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany

Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2018 - This version, August 29, 2018

Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers have 22 percent more years of schooling - the indicator used … indicators of individual and parental human capital influence short-run integration outcomes in Germany, while work experience in …

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The human capital selection of young males seeking asylum in Germany

Lange, Martin; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for labour market research 53 (2019) 8, pp. 1-14

countries that recently arrived in Germany. The findings suggest that, on average, asylum seekers in our sample have 22% more … education. It is demonstrated that individual human capital influences short-run integration outcomes in Germany. The paper …

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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2007

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Self-productivity and complementarities in human development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...