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Gender wage gap in West Germany : how far do gender differences in human capital matter?

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable … private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the analysis shows that if a large part of the gender wage gap can be … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender …

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Returns to education in West Germany : an empirical assessment

Lauer, Charlotte; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

. However, the estimates proved rather robust towards the specification of the wage equation and the estimation method. …

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Private Erträge von Bildungsinvestitionen in Deutschland

Steiner, Viktor; Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

Wir analysieren die Entwicklung der Bildungsrenditen in Westdeutschland in der Periode von 1984 bis 1997 auf der Basis der Humankapitaltheorie mit Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels. Die Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass Frauen mit etwa 10% eine signifikant höhere durchschnittliche...

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Family background, cohort and education : a French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany … the stage observed in the educational career, in particular with respect to gender differences. …

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Education, gender and earnings in France and Germany : level and dispersion effects

Lauer, Charlotte (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Are wages in Southern Europe more flexible? : The effects of a cohort size on European earnings

Brunello, Giorgio (contributor); … - 2005

We exploit the crosscountry and time variation in the demographics and education structure of 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size has a negative and statistically significant effect...

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Education and unemployment : a French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the...

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Employment of mothers after childbirth : French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte; Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2003

This paper compares the work attachment of French and German women after childbirth. Both fertility and employment of mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might not be representative for all women, we take account...

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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...

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Intergenerational poverty dynamics in Poland : family background and children's educational attainment during transition

Beblo, Miriam; Lauer, Charlotte - 2002

In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through children´s educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and education is investigated using an ordered probit...

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