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The recently published data from the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) has revealed that Germany ranks lowest among the OECD countries for educational equalities. This paper examines whether it is the tracking of children into different types of school environments at a particularly early stage of their intellectual development, i.e. at the transition from primary to secondary school, ...
Florence:
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre,
2002,
(Innocenti Working Paper No. 92)
| Sylke Viola Schnepf
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Contributing to a growing literature on sibling correlations, this paper is the first to present results for Germany. On the basis of data from the GSOEP, around one third of the variance or inequality in permanent earnings for men and around one fourth for women can be attributed to family characteristics during childhood. This indicates a slightly lower influence of family on women’s outcomes. The ...
Philadelphia:
2010,
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Around 37 percent of those in paid full-time employment in Germany did not claim their full vacation entitlement last year. The number of vacation days actually taken by each employee was on average three days less than the full entitlement. This equates to around twelve percent of the overall volume of vacation entitlement not being used. This figure is corroborated by data from the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
2 (2012), 2, 25-31
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Based on brother correlations in permanent earnings for different groups of second generation immigrants, the findings in this paper indicate that cultural background is not a major determinant of the level of intergenerational economic mobility.
In:
Economics Letters
114 (2012), 3, 335-337
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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For a considerable time now, the lack of equality in wage incomes in Germany has been getting clearly worse. Hence it is all the more important to at least guarantee equal opportunities in our society. The level of income - both for social and economic reasons - should be dependent on individual performance and not on one's parents' status. But what shape is equality of opportunity in Germany ...
Bielefeld:
Bertelsmann,
2012,
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn, shapes the prevailing pattern of social inequality. This is not a specifically German phenomenon. Based on a ...
In:
DIW Economic Bulletin
3 (2013), 5, 3-8
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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This paper is the first to analyze the impact of family background on permanent earnings based on sibling correlations in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and community background has a stronger influence on permanent earnings in Germany than in Denmark, and a comparable influence is found in USA. This holds true for both ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
27 (2014), 1, 69-89
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Motivated by contradictory evidence on intergenerational mobility in Germany, I present a cross-country comparison of Germany and the U.S., reassessing the question of whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany than in the U.S. I can reproduce the standard result from the literature, which states that the German intergenerational elasticity estimates are lower than those for the U.S. However, ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
62 (2016), 4, 650-67
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Based on highly comparable data from the OECD PIAAC Programme, this note analyzes the relationship between generalized trust and cognitive skills among 30 countries around the world. The results show that the strength and direction of the relationship is not a universal characteristic but varies substantially among countries worldwide. A detailed descriptive analysis of this variation provides evidence ...
In:
Economics Bulletin
39 (2019), 1, 200-206
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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We investigate whether non-cognitive skills – in particular Locus of Control – are important determinants of mobility processes for male workers at the low-wage margin. Our results reveal a significant amount of state dependence in low pay even after controlling for non-cognitive skills. Furthermore, compared to individuals with an external Locus of Control, individuals with a more internal Locus of ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
53 (2016), April 2016, 164-177
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Jens Stephani