In this paper, on the basis of data of RLMS and of Monitoring of economics of education, it is shown that factors of the family capital (first of all, incomes and the educational level of parents) represent an essential obstacle for educational options for Russian high schools graduates. The inequity in accessing professional education was strong in 1961-1990 as well as in 1991-2000. Some of the factors ...
Bildungsinvestitionen sind für den Einzelnen mit einem höheren Erwerbseinkommen und einem geringeren Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko im Lebenszyklus verbunden. Eine Analyse auf Basis von Erwerbsbiografien des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigt, dass die private Bildungsrendite, also der persönliche finanzielle Nutzen, unterschätzt wird, wenn man das durch Bildung gesunkene Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko ignoriert. ...
We find that the protective effect of years of schooling on the BMI of European females is non negligible, but smaller than the one recently found for the US. By using individual standardized cognitive tests instead of years of schooling as the measure of education we show that the current focus in the literature on years of schooling is not misplaced. We also investigate whether the response to changes ...
Closely following recent innovations in the literature on the multidimensional measurement of poverty, this paper provides similar measures for the top of the distribution using a dual cutoff method to identify individuals, who can be considered as rich in a multidimensional setting. We use this framework to analyze the role of wealth, health and education, in addition to income, as dimensions of multidimensional ...
Repräsentative Mikrodaten aus dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) werden für drei Forschungsprojekte genutzt, die den gesamten Prozess der intergenerationalen Weitergabe von Ressourcen und Möglichkeiten während des Lebenslaufes unter verschiedenen Blickwinkeln der Ergebnismessung untersucht. Projekt 1: Intergenerationale Weitergabe von elterlichen Möglichkeiten und Sozialstatus (Olaf Groh...
This study questions the popular stereotype that women are more risk averse than men in their financial investment decisions. The analysis is based on micro-level data from large-scale surveys of private households in five European countries. In our analysis of investment decisions, we directly account for individuals' self-perceived willingness to take financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide ...
This article analyzes differences in naming between East and West Germany. After World War II, Germany was split by the allied forces. Two Germanies emerged: the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The country's division lasted about forty years (1949-1989), a time span in which vastlydifferent geo-political frameworks - Eastern bloc versus Western bloc - shaped ...
