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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 … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360290
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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 … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348742
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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 … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145947
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The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-Being of Children Left Behind : Initial Evidence from Romania
Botezat, Alina - 2014
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these … paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration in the sending countries. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052560
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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection on unobserved skills : new evidence
Hebsaker, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-9
, specifically their educational improvement in comparison to their parents' level of education. Next, the estimates are compared …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012506884
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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 intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034744
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Intergenerational Mobility and Self-Selection of Asylum Seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael - 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865737
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for … reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation … transition until 2080. If policy aims at reducing the inequality of lifetime income among people of the same generation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732726
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Training and individual performance in Europe: evidence from microeconometric studies
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy. This paper provides a critical review of recent econometric work on the determinants and impacts of training in Europe. Training has non negligible positive effects for firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428327
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Early life adversity and children's competence development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk ; conference paper
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2013
achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort study following 364 children from birth to adolescence. Results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339997