Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other 'objective' factors on career achievement. In our study, we go a step further by also looking at the impact of self-reported personality traits on differences in career chances. For the first time - to our knowledge - we compare managers and other white-collar employees in Germany's private sector and find evidence that personality ...
In:
Management Revue
22 (2011), 3, S. 240-273
| Simon Fietze, Elke Holst, Verena Tobsch
This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set (SOEP) containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the ...
In:
Axel Börsch-Supan, Martina Brandt, Karsten Hank, Mathis Schröder (Eds.) ,
The Individual and the Welfare State
Berlin [u.a.] : Springer
S. 1-15
| Axel Börsch-Supan, Mathis Schröder
In:
Axel Börsch-Supan, Martina Brandt, Karsten Hank, Mathis Schröder (Eds.) ,
The Individual and the Welfare State
Berlin [u.a.] : Springer
S. 191-201
| Mathis Schröder
The educational and employment trajectories of migrant children in France and Germany are extremely diverse. The few successful ones dominate the public eye. Yet successful biographies of young adults with a migration background are in no way a negligible exception. However, the picture is different in the two countries: while in France more migrants' descendants manage to reach their (secondary?) ...
2011| Ingrid Tucci, Ariane Jossin, Carsten Keller, Olaf Groh-Samberg
In:
Matthias Wingens, Michael Windzio, Helga de Valk, Can Aybek (Eds.) ,
A Life-Course Perspective on Migration and Integration
Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer
S. 143-164
| Ingrid Tucci