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The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-Being of Children Left Behind – Initial Evidence from Romania

Botezat, Alina; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014

Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration...

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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development : Evidence from MARS

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...

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A Socio-Economic Analysis of Youth Disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben - 2009

among the most important ones. Many youths in modern society lack networks to provide emotional support, financial … assistance and housing. Two problems for disconnected youths may arise. First, when loans are difficult to obtain due to … disadvantaged youths seem to suffer most, presumably because recessions aggravate the wounds left from early life adversity. Our …

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Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2009

This paper investigates the development of basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities from infancy to adolescence. We analyse the predictive power of these abilities, initial risk conditions and home resources for children's achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of...

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Human Capital Investment Strategies in Europe

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2011

The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...

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Ausmaß und Konsequenzen von Lohnrigiditäten

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung 36 (2003) 4, pp. 616-633

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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany

Gernandt, Johannes - 2008

This paper investigates the evolution of wages and the recent tendency to rising wage inequality in Germany, based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 1984 to 2004. Between 1984 and 1994 the wage distribution was fairly stable. Wage inequality started to increase around 1994 in...

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Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity

Maier, Michael F.; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2008

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to education. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008

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 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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