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Externe Working Papers
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control. We use the German Socio-economic Panel ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss.,
2012,
40 S.
(Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2012,19)
| Frank M. Fossen, Tobias J. M. Büttner
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SOEPpapers 487 / 2012
The reasons why the lower educated divorce more than the higher educated in many societies today are poorly understood. Distinct divorce risks by education could be caused by variation in pressures to the couple, commitment, or relationship skills. We concentrate on the latter explanation by looking at the distribution of personality traits across society and its impact on the educational gradient ...
2012| Diederik Boertien, Christian von Scheve, Mona Park
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Externe Working Papers
In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a new method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are unbiased estimates in the absence of instruments and parameter interpretation that is not bounded to local average ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2012,
46 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 6813)
| Nils Saniter
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Externe Working Papers
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control. We use the German Socio-economic Panel ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2012,
40 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 6819)
| Frank M. Fossen, Tobias J. M. Büttner
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DIW Discussion Papers 1240 / 2012
Applying a financial assets approach, we analyze the returns and earnings risk of investments into different types of human capital. Even though the returns from investing in human capital are extensively studied, little is known about the properties of the returns to different types of human capital within a given educational path. Using information from the German Micro Census, we estimate the ...
2012| Daniela Glocker, Johanna Storck
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SOEPpapers 478 / 2012
This study analyses the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees' worries about losing their job are reduced. This observation can also be explained by the fact that goals of ...
2012| Julia Lang
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SOEPpapers 477 / 2012
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered characteristics, in particular, personality traits and tasks performed at work which are taken into account in addition ...
2012| Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm
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SOEPpapers 483 / 2012
Given shortages in public child care in Germany, this paper asks whether social support with child care and domestic work by spouses, kin and friends can facilitate mothers' return to full-time or part-time positions within the first six years after birth. Using SOEP data from 1993-2009 and event history analyses for competing risks, the author compares the employment transitions of West German, East ...
2012| Mareike Wagner
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study examines how changes in gender role attitudes of couples after childbirth relate to women's paid work and the type of childcare used. Identifying attitude-practice dissonances matters because how they get resolved influences mothers' future employment. Previous research examined changes in women's attitudes and employment, or spouses' adaptations to each others' attitudes. This is extended ...
In:
Work, Employment and Society
26 (2012), 3, S. 514-530
| Pia S. Schober, Jacqueline L. Scott
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study explored reciprocal associations between paternal child-care involvement and relationship quality by following British couples from the birth of a child until he or she reached school age. It extends the literature by distinguishing between paternal engagement in absolute terms and relative to the mother and by considering relationship quality reports of mothers and fathers and family breakdown. ...
In:
Journal of Marriage and Family
74 (2012), 2, S. 281-296
| Pia S. Schober