Regional contextual factors can have a crucial impact on educational attainment processes of young adults and subsequently on individual life chances. This paper develops a systematic approach of the spatial references of such contextual settings. The flexible concept allows combining aggregate data for configurations of regional units in order to empirically determine the spatial extension of relevant ...
The intention of this paper is to demonstrate the flexibility and capacity of penalized spline smoothing as estimation routine for modelling duration time data. We investigate the unemployment behaviour in Germany and the UK between 1995 and 2005 based on data from national panel studies. Functional duration time models are used to investigate the dynamics of covariate effects. The focus of our analysis ...
Die Untersuchung analysiert die Sparneigung der im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel befragten Personen bzw. Haushalte in Bezug auf Erbschaften und Schenkungen. Ausgangspunkt sind Querschnittsregressionen, die den Vermögensbestand in 2002 durch das Lebenszeiteinkommen und in der Vergangenheit erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Schenkungen erklären. Es werden Verzögerungen in der Anpassung der Vermögensbestände an ...