survey", a rich German data set with information on 0.1 percent of all individuals employed in Germany in 1998/1999. We use a … one-step full-information maximum likelihood and a two stage least squares estimation to regress the impact of training …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …. -- Locus of control ; wages ; latent factor model ; data set combination …

This paper jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection and signalling on entry wages of skilled employees … job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … from the training firms’ point of view. Negative selection leads to lower average wages of employer changersin the first …

In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im …. Wirtschaftlicher und technologischer Wandel erfordern vielmehr in vielen Bereichen vermehrte Investitionen in Bildung und Weiterbildung. … self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …

estimation strategies. It demonstrates that selectivity into occupations and changers, unobserved heterogeneity between … occupations, and the sample selection matter and proposes several improvements in the estimation technique to measure …

-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …

mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …