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  • SOEPpapers 834 / 2016

    Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and Family Background: Evidence from Sibling Correlations

    This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation. Sibling correlations in non-cognitive ...

    2016| Silke Anger, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
  • Diskussionspapiere 1561 / 2016

    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) overalmost five years. In the additional time, students are taught new learning content. On average, the reform improves student performance. However, treatment effects ...

    2016| Mathias Huebener, Susanne Kuger, Jan Marcus
  • SOEPpapers 823 / 2016

    Effectiveness of Social Capital in the Job Search Process

    The empirical literature has provided ample yet contradictory evidence on the effectiveness of social ties in the job search process in terms of post-hire outcomes, such as wages or job satisfaction. Whereas early research, mainly focussing on the U.S. labour market, found positive correlations between finding a job via social ties and post-hire outcomes, most recent studies reported inconclusive or ...

    2016| Ralf Werner Koßmann
  • Externe Monographien

    The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?

    We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different from other firms in terms of innovativeness. We find that while firms engage in innovative activities with smaller ...

    Bonn: IZA, 2016, 44 S.
    (Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 9734)
    | Julian Baumann, Alexander S. Kritikos
  • Diskussionspapiere 1546 / 2016

    The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?

    We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different from other firms in terms of innovativeness. We find that while firms engage in innovative activities with smaller ...

    2016| Julian Baumann, Alexander S. Kritikos
  • 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
  • SOEPpapers 881 / 2016

    Between Life Cycle Model, Labor Market Integration and Discrimination: An Econometric Analysis of the Determinants of Return Migration

    This paper studies the determinants of return migration by applying the Cox hazard model to longitudinal micro data from 1996 to 2012, including immigrants of a wide range of nationalities. The empirical results reveal the validity of the life cycle model of Migration Economics and a strong return probability decreasing effect of labor market integration and societal integration. Modeling non-proportional ...

    2016| Eric Schuss
  • SOEPpapers 878 / 2016

    Subjective Completion Beliefs and the Demand for Post-Secondary Education

    The outcome of pursuing an upper or post-secondary education degree is uncertain. A student might not complete a chosen degree for a number of reasons, such as insufficient academic preparation or financial constraints. Thus, when considering whether to invest in post-secondary education, students must factor their probability of completing the degree into their decision. We study the role of this ...

    2016| Johannes S. Kunz, Kevin E. Staub
  • Diskussionspapiere 1589 / 2016

    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 at universities. In this regard, the economic literature mainly studies the effect of financial constraints on post-secondary educational decisions. Our knowledge on potential effects of other constraints regarding university education is more limited. We investigate ...

    2016| Frauke H. Peter, Vaishali Zambre
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