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Diskussionspapiere 610 / 2006
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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Refereed essays Web of Science
Theoretical models of employer learning suggest that an employee's education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, however, the returns to schooling should decrease with labor market experience and increase with initially unobserved ability, since the employer gradually obtains better information on the productivity of an employee. Replicating US studies using a large German ...
In:
Labour Economics
8 (2001), 2, S. 161-180
| Thomas K. Bauer, John P. Haisken-DeNew
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. We compare second generation immigrants' educational attainments to those of similarly aged natives. Evidence from German data suggests ethnicity matters: ethnic network size has a positive effect on educational attainment, and a clear pattern is exhibited between countries-of-origin ...
In:
Journal of Human Resources
35 (2000), 3, S. 550-569
| Ira N. Gang, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Weitere externe Aufsätze
In:
Hermann Kurthen, Jürgen Fijalkowski, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Immigrant Incorporation. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States
Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : JAI Press
S. 35-46
| Gert G. Wagner, Felix Büchel, John P. Haisken-DeNew, C. Katharina Spiess
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Diskussionspapiere 328 / 2003
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" ("globalisation") and technological progress. Several empirical methodologies have been used to identify and quantify the importance of these two explanations: ...
2003| Michael Pflüger
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Diskussionspapiere 317 / 2002
We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant of outcomes than early-childhood income, and income effects are not greater for poor households compared ...
2002| Stephen P. Jenkins, Christian Schluter
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Diskussionspapiere 339 / 2003
This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model, contains two agglomerative forces. However, in contrast to that model, the present model is analytically solvable. Moreover, the present model exhibits a 'supercritical pitchfork bifurcation' rather than the 'subcritical pitchfork bifurcation' of the CP model. This may be a better description ...
2003| Michael Pflüger
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The positive effects of Early Childhood Programs (ECP's) on children's school success have been demonstrated in the literature. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where ECP's vary widely, based on differing auspice, regulation, cost, and other factors. In European countries, ECP's are generally far more homogenous. This is particularly true for Germany where most programs are community-based ...
In:
Early Childhood Research Quarterly
18 (2003), 2, S. 255-270
| Gert G. Wagner, C. Katharina Spieß, Felix Büchel
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Externe Monographien
Bonn:
IZA,
2003,
24 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 722)
| C. Katharina Spieß, Felix Büchel, Gert G. Wagner
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Economic Bulletin 1 / 2004
2004| Jürgen Schupp, Tobias Gramlich, Gert G. Wagner