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  • Diskussionspapiere 681 / 2007

    Firm Size, Wages and Unobserved Skills: Evidence from Dual Job Holdings in the UK

    The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because they employ more skilled workers. Most previous studies control for unobserved skills of workers using longitudinal data and the fixed effects estimator thus relying on a questionable assumption of time-invariant unobserved individual heterogeneity. This paper releases this assumption ...

    2007| Alexander Muravyev
  • Externe Monographien

    Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

    Bonn: IZA, 2007, 44 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 2573)
    | Thomas Siedler
  • Diskussionspapiere 550 / 2006

    Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?

    We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England's secondary schools, employing a cross-national perspective. Analysis is based on data for 27 rich industrialised countries from the 2000 and 2003 rounds of the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA), using a number of different measures of social background and of segregation, and allowing for sampling variation ...

    2006| Stephen P. Jenkins, John Micklewright, Sylke V. Schnepf
  • Diskussionspapiere 570 / 2006

    Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

    In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a discrete choice panel data model ...

    2006| Katharina Wrohlich
  • Diskussionspapiere 565 / 2006

    Central versus Local Education Finance: A Political Economy Approach

    This paper models voters' preferences over central versus local education policies when there are private alternatives. Education is financed by income taxes and individuals are mobile between communities. Public education levels are chosen by majority vote. Contrary to conventional wisdom, centralisation may benefit the rich and poor, while the middle class prefer decentralised education. The model ...

    2006| Rainald Borck
  • Diskussionspapiere 563 / 2006

    Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

    Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment' and apply the difference-in-difference ...

    2006| Hans J. Baumgartner, Viktor Steiner
  • Externe Monographien

    Does More Generous Student Aid Increase Enrolment Rates into Higher Education? Evaluating the German Student Aid Reform of 2001

    Bonn: IZA, 2006, 23 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 2034)
    | Hans J. Baumgartner, Viktor Steiner
  • Externe Monographien

    Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

    Bonn: IZA, 2006, 29 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 2053)
    | Katharina Wrohlich
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Cohort Effects and the Returns to Education in West Germany

    Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age and year effects in the returns. For women, we find a large and robust decline in schooling premia: In the private sector, the returns to a ...

    In: Applied Economics 38 (2006), 10, S. 1135-1152 | Bernhard Boockmann, Viktor Steiner
  • Diskussionspapiere 610 / 2006

    Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

    We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. But once endogeneity is accounted for, whether by using sibling-difference estimators ...

    2006| Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler
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