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The impact of music on educational attainment

This paper analyzes the impact of music practice on educational outcomes. Estimates from multivariate regressions and individual fixed effects suggest that childhood musical activity—either playing an instrument or singing—relates positively to educational achievements in adolescence. The magnitude and significance of the estimated music coefficients for different music indicators is robust when increasing ...

Participation in Continuing Vocational Training in Germany between 1989 and 2008

Who participates in continuing vocational training and who does not? This central question in research on continuing vocational training gains in significance the more the importance of lifelong learning is postulated. On the basis of the SOEP data collection periods of 1989, 1993, 2000, 2004 and 2008, I will describe participation in continuing vocational training in Germany between 1989 and 2008, ...

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in Germany: Moving with Natives or Stuck in their Neighbourhoods

In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than typically found for the U.S. and imply higher mobility in Germany than in the U.S. However, as in the U.S., ...

Are All Single Mothers the Same? Evidence from British and West German Women’s Employment Trajectories

Single motherhood is often discussed as a reason for women’s non-employment. This article investigates women’s employment trajectories during and after single motherhood in the welfare state contexts of Britain and West Germany. Sequence analysis is applied to longitudinal data from the British Household Panel Survey (N¼329) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (N¼378), comparing patterns in employment ...

Understanding Differences in Labour Market Attachment of Single Mothers in Great Britain and West Germany

This paper investigates the relationships between single mothers’ demographic and socio-economic circumstances and differences in their labour market attachment in Great Britain and West Germany. Single mothers’ employment is a key issue in current policy debates in both countries, as well as in research on the major challenges of contemporary welfare states. The heterogeneity of the group of women ...

Count Data Models. Econometric Theory and an Application to Labor Mobility (Lecture Notes in Econometrics and Mathematical Systems 410; Dissertation)

Another Look at Work Contracts and Absenteeism

A count data model for gamma waiting times

A new distribution for non-negative integers, or counts, is developed. It is based on the assumption that the waiting times separating consecutive events are independently and identically gamma distributed. Thus, the structural process generating the counts may exhibit duration dependence. In this framework, the frequently observed phenomenon of overdispersion, that is a variance that exceeds the mean, ...

Count Data Models With Selectivity

Employment Prospects and Skill Acquisition of Apprenticeship-trained Workers in Germany

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984-90, the author analyzes the entrance of young individuals into the German labor market, comparing the experience of apprenticeship graduates to that of graduates from universities, full-time vocational schools, and secondary schools. Apprentices experienced fewer unemployment spells in the transition to their first full-time employment than did ...