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This paper examines the determinants of return migration as foreign-born individuals approach old age in Germany. Return migration in later life engages a different set of conditions than return migration earlier on, including framing return as a possible retirement strategy. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, results suggest that later-life emigrants are “negatively selected” on the basis ...
Los Angeles:
University of California, California Center for Population Research,
2009,
(CCPR-2009-019)
| Jenjira J. Yahirun
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Syracuse:
Syracuse University, Maxwell School,
2002,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 314)
| Atsuhiro Yamada, Bernard Casey
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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 ...
In:
Journal of Cultural Economics
39 (2015), 4, 369-396
| Philip Yang
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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, ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
133 (2013), 2, 169-184
| Alexander Yendell
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In:
Stefan Empter, Robert B. Vehrkamp ,
Soziale Gerechtigkeit - eine Bestandsaufnahme (Gemeinschaftsinitiative der Bertelsmann Stiftung, Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung und Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung)
Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung
198-230
| Peter Westerheide
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Berlin:
2005,
| Peter Westerheide, Andreas Ammermüller, Andrea M. Weber
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This study examines the importance of parental health in the development of child behavior during early childhood. Our analysis is based on child psychometric measures from a longitudinal German dataset, which tracks mothers and their newborns up to age six. We identify major changes in parental health (shocks) and control for a variety of initial characteristics of the child including prenatal conditions. ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
14 (2016), 3, 577-598
| Franz Westermaier, Brant Morefield, Andrea M. Mühlenweg
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Blog des Promotionskollegs "Steuer- und Sozialpolitik bei wachsender Ungleichheit" an der FU Berlin,
2014,
| Christian Westermeier
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In Germany, a flagrant lack of official register or tax data for scholarly use leads to a situation wherein survey data is the last remaining source of evidence about the distribution of wealth. Two of the four research chapters in this thesis aim to evaluate methods for the improvement of available survey data. The other two contributions discuss the possibilities and limitations of survey data for ...
2017,
| Christian Westermeier
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Analysen zur Vermögensungleichheit auf Basis von Bevölkerungserhebungen untererfassen tendenziell die Top-Vermögenden. Gerade dieser Personenkreis ist aber von besonderer Bedeutung, weil er einen beträchtlichen Teil des Gesamtvermögens besitzt. Offizielle Registerdaten zur Vermögenssituation liegen für Deutschland nicht vor, die Top-Vermögen lassen sich lediglich an Hand von „Reichen-Listen“ simulieren. ...
In:
DIW Wochenbericht
82 (2015), 7, 123-133
| Christian Westermeier, Markus M. Grabka