The intergenerational transmission of education and equality of educational opportunity in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Trübswetter, Parvati

doi:10.1080/00036846.2012.703314

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“…The costs associated with having a child are likely to differ between low and high educated parents once the child enters its late teens. Past studies have shown that there is a correlation between parental and children's education (Riphahn & Trü bswetter, 2013). Children of low educated parents are consequently more likely to attend Berufsschulen (vocational training schools).…”

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Within-couple specialisation in paid work: A long-term pattern? A dual trajectory approach to linking lives

Langner

2015

Advances in Life Course Research

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Research on the division of labour has mainly focussed on transitions between individuals' labour market states during the first years of parenthood. A common conclusion has been that couples specialize--women in unpaid and men in paid work--either due to gender ideologies or a comparative advantage in the labour market. But what happens later in life? The German Socio-Economic Panel now provides researchers with a continuous measure of working hours across decades of couples' lives, enabling a dual trajectory analysis to explore couples' long-term specialisation patterns. I focus on the career trajectories of West German couples, and specifically, due to the relatively low institutional and normative support for female employment during its members' early years, on the 1956-65 female birth cohort. Even in this setting and with a conservative estimate, a surprisingly small number of couples--only a fifth--adopt full specialisation in later life. A sizable proportion--a third--moves into dual full-time employment. This trend is even more common among highly educated couples: half of those couples move into dual full-time employment. I find that highly educated women are not only less likely to permanently specialise but also more likely to try working full-time, possibly because their partners' comparative advantages are lower. But despite high opportunity costs, 45% of highly educated parents never try to pursue a dual career either because of a satiation of material wants or because of low societal support for maternal employment. The latter phenomenon is further underscored by the finding that many couples' increase in working hours occurs only when a youngest child is a teenager.

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Within-couple specialisation in paid work: A long-term pattern? A dual trajectory approach to linking lives

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2015

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“…Substantial cross-country heterogeneity in test scores existed in both Western and Eastern Europe, as shown by Table 4, where average test scores in quantitative 8 For East Germany see Riphahn and Trü bswetter (2010). Between 1989 and 1997, the share of students enrolled in general education rose from 24 to 28 percent in Hungary, from 22.5 to 32.4 percent in Poland, from 17.8 to 22.1 percent in the Czech Republic and from 18.1 to 25 percent in the Slovak Republic (Berryman, 2000) 9 Prose literacy is the knowledge and skills needed to understand and use information from texts including editorials, news stories, brochures and instruction manuals.…”

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“…8 8 For East Germany see Riphahn and Trübswetter (2010). Between 1989 and 1997, the share of students enrolled in general education rose from 24 to 28 percent in Hungary, from 22.5 to 32.4 percent in Poland, from 17.8 to 22.1 percent in the Czech Republic and from 18.1 to 25 percent in the Slovak Republic (Berryman, 2000) …”

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Lost in transition?

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Crivellaro

Rocco

2012

Economics of Transition

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Using data for Germany and 23 other economies in Eastern and Western Europe, this paper estimates the monetary returns to education acquired under communism more than 10 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. We show that, in the 2000s, Eastern European workers who completed their education under communism earned in the 2000s similar returns to their education as did workers belonging to the same age cohorts who studied in Western Europe. This might suggest that education under communism is still as valuable as education attained in Western Europe. However, individuals educated under communism are more likely than their Western counterparts to be unemployed, retired or disabled, and therefore to earn lower or zero returns to their education. Moreover, when we allow the returns to pre‐ and post‐secondary education to differ, we find that senior males who have attained only primary or secondary education under communism are penalized in the post‐transition Eastern European labour markets, and that those who have completed post‐secondary education under communism enjoy in these markets higher payoffs to their education than similarly educated Western European individuals who are employed in the West.

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“…German secondary schools use a track system (e.g., Heineck andRiphahn 2009, KMK 2013 (Riphahn and Trübswetter 2012).…”

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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - In East and West Germany

Riphahn

Zibrowius

2015

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no significant differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and no significant changes in the returns over time. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor mayInstrumental variable estimations confirm the regression results. The positive returns hold up even in poor labor market situations.JEL-Code: J400, J240, I290.

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The intergenerational transmission of education and equality of educational opportunity in East and West Germany

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Within-couple specialisation in paid work: A long-term pattern? A dual trajectory approach to linking lives

Within-couple specialisation in paid work: A long-term pattern? A dual trajectory approach to linking lives

Lost in transition?

Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes - In East and West Germany

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