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Theorie und Empirie über den Wirkungszusammenhang zwischen sozialer Herkunft, kulturellem und sozialem Kapital, Bildung und Einkommen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Krenz, Astrid - 2008

Einkommen determiniert. Neben der Darlegung theoretischer und ökonometrischer Konzepte wird für die Jahre 2001 und 2005 für die … Hintergrunds über kulturelles und soziales Kapital auf das Einkommen herausarbeitet. Es zeigt sich, dass der soziale Hintergrund … mittelbar, über das erreichte Bildungsniveau, das Einkommen eines Menschen bestimmt. Die Bildung eines Individuums hängt dabei …

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Field of study, earnings, and self-selection

Kirkebøen, Lars; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - 2014

Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives. Even with a valid instrument for every type...

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The Impact of Training on Earnings: Differences Between Participant Groups and Training Forms

Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2003

While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of different training forms and about the effects for heterogeneous training participants. This study therefore adds two aspects to the literature on earnings effects of training. First,...

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Continuing Vocational Training in Germany: A Comparative Study Using 3 German Data Set

Kuckulenz, Anja - 2006

Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training. This makes comparison of econometric analyses of the impact of training on labour market outcomes di?cult. Three large German data sets are used here to bring to light the data...

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Maintaining (locus of) control? Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages

Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia R. - 2010

This paper establishes that individuals with an internal locus of control, i.e., who believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive effect only translates into labor income via the channel...

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Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages

Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia - 2010

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...

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Comparative advantage, segmentation and informal earnings: a marginal treatment effects approach

Arias, Omar; Khamis, Melanie - 2008

This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...

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Earnings functions, rates of return and treatment effects: the Mincer equation and beyond

Heckman, James Joseph; Lochner, Lance J.; Todd, Petra E. - 2005

Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as Mincer rates of return. A more recent literature uses instrumental variables. This chapter considers the economic interpretation of these analyses and how the availability of repeated cross section and panel...

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Cross-sectional earnings risk and occupational sorting: the role of risk attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2006

This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains a subjective assessment of willingness to take risks whose behavioral relevance has been...

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