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  • SOEPpapers 938 / 2017

    The Space of Capital: A Latent Class Analysis of Capital Portfolios in Germany

    The aim of this paper is to construct the “space of capital” based on disaggregated measures of capital portfolios and to analyze the dynamics of class mobility over time. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the “social space”, we argue that it is possible to directly assess the structural dimensions of the social space as a space of (economic and cultural) capital, including wealth as an important ...

    2017| Nora Waitkus, Olaf Groh-Samberg
  • SOEPpapers 911 / 2017

    Zur Berechnung von Bruttostundenlöhnen - Verdienst(struktur)erhebung und Sozio-oekonomisches Panel im Vergleich

    Aufgrund der Festlegung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns als Stundenlohn müssen valide Informationen, zu Bruttostundenlöhnen aus den Angaben zu Monatsentgelten und wöchentlichen Arbeitszeiten, berechnet werden. Dieser Beitrag vergleicht methodisch sowie empirisch das Sozio-oekonomische Panel und die Verdienst(struktur)erhebung. Demnach bestehen grundlegende konzeptionelle Unterschiede, in der Stichprobenziehung ...

    2017| Matthias Dütsch, Ralf Himmelreicher, Clemens Ohlert
  • Diskussionspapiere 1692 / 2017

    Employment and Human Capital Investment Intentions among Recent Refugees in Germany

    Motivations to participate in the labour market as well as to invest in labour market skills are crucial for the successful integration of refugees. In this paper we use a unique dataset – the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, which is a representative longitudinal study of all refugees reported on administrative records in Germany – and analyse which determinants and characteristics are correlated with ...

    2017| Peter Haan, Martin Kroh, Kent Troutman
  • Externe Monographien

    Essays on the Impact of Education and Family Policies on the Formation of Human Capital

    Berlin: FU Berlin, 2017, XXIV, 237 S. | Mathias Hübener
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Intended College Enrollment and Educational Inequality: Do Students Lack Information?

    Despite increasing access to university education, students from disadvantaged or non-academic family backgrounds are still underrepresented in universities. In this regard, the economics literature has focused on the role of financial constraints as a cause of these observed differences in educational choices. Our knowledge of potential effects of other constraints regarding university education is ...

    In: Economics of Education Review 60 (2017), S. 125-141 | Frauke H. Peter, Vaishali Zambre
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Increased Instruction Hours and the Widening Gap in Student Performance

    Do increased instruction hours improve the performance of all students? Using PISA scores of students in ninth grade, we analyse the effect of a German education reform that increased weekly instruction hours by two hours (6.5 percent) over almost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student performance. However, treatment effects ...

    In: Labour Economics 47 (2017), S. 15-34 | Mathias Huebener, Susanne Kuger, Jan Marcus
  • Diskussionspapiere 1651 / 2017

    Paid Parental Leave and Child Development: Evidence from the 2007 German Parental Benefit Reform and Administrative Data

    This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings-related and only paid for up to 14 months. ...

    2017| Mathias Huebener, Daniel Kuehnle, C. Katharina Spiess
  • Externe Monographien

    Human Capital Returns to Education: Three Essays on the Causal Effects of Schooling on Skills and Health

    Berlin: FU Berlin, 2016, 213 S. | Sarah Dahmann
  • SOEPpapers 890 / 2016

    Locus of Control and Investment in Training

    This paper extends standard models of work-related training by explicitly incorporating workers' locus of control into the investment decision. Our model both differentiates between general and specific training and accounts for the role of workers and firms in training decisions. Workers with an internal locus of control are predicted to engage in more general training than are their external co-workers ...

    2016| Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Helke Seitz, Arne Uhlendorff
  • SOEPpapers 887 / 2016

    Locus of Control and Mothers' Return to Employment

    This paper investigates the effect of locus of control (LOC) on the length of mothers’ employment break after childbirth. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), duration data reveals that women with an internal LOC return to employment more quickly than women with an external LOC.We find that this effect is particularly pronounced in jobs in which the penalties in terms of lower ...

    2016| Eva M. Berger, Luke Haywood
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