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RP8
Who Becomes a Teacher – and Why? Causes of Choice of Field of Study, Entrance Qualifications of Teacher Students, and Evaluation of the TeacherStudy Programme more
Teachers are a central determinant of successful schooling – this has been shown impressively by resent research on the effectiveness of educati...
Directors : 
Walter Müller
Researchers: 
Martin Neugebauer
Status: 
completed
RP8
Educational Careers and Social Inequality – Analysis of the Impact of Social Origin on Educational Career Patterns and Their Labor Market Outcomes from a Comparative Perspective more
This project examined two research questions to deepen the understanding of social origin on delayed achievement of education. First, whether social o...
Directors : 
Marita Jacob
Researchers: 
Felix Weiss, Markus Klein
Status: 
completed
RP8
Educational Expansion, Skill-biased Technological Change and Occupational Returns to Education. A Trend Analysis of Tertiary Graduates’ Employment Outlook more
In the light of educational expansion, occupational upgrading, and macroeconomic changes the project addressed the question to what extent these inter...
Directors : 
Walter Müller
Researchers: 
Markus Klein
Status: 
completed
RP8
Homogamy and Fertility - The Impact of Partnership Context on Family Formation more
The project investigated the interdependencies between partnership formation, education, and fertility behaviour of couples. Low fertility rates in mo...
Directors : 
Marita Jacob
Researchers: 
Michael Kühhirt, Gerrit Bauer
Status: 
completed
RP8
Young Women's Labour Market Chances in Muslim Middle Eastern and Northern African Countries more
Against the background that young women in Middle Eastern and Northern African (MENA) countries have the worst labour market chances in worldwide comp...
Directors : 
Michael Gebel
Researchers: 
Stefanie Heyne
Status: 
completed
RP8
The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Youth Labour Markets in Europe more
Looking at age-specific unemployment rates reveals that the recent economic crisis particularly hit young people. Therefore, concerns of creating a "l...
Directors : 
Michael Gebel
Researchers: 
Bettina Schuck
Status: 
completed
RP8
Union Decline or Skill-Biased Technological Change? Income Inequality in Germany, 1979-2012 more
Wage inequality in German has risen markedly since the mid-1990s; nevertheless, research on the causes and consequences of increasing earnings variabi...
Directors : 
Michael Gebel
Researchers: 
Joseph King
Status: 
completed
RP8
Ethnic Inequalities in Educational Success more
The project "Ethnic Differences in Education", originally initiated by the National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), aimed to examine mechanisms and ...
Directors : 
Hartmut Esser
Researchers: 
Tobias Hannemann, Tobias Schallock
Status: 
completed
RP8
The Role of Social Resources for the Explanation of Ethnic Educational Inequalities in the German School System more
In this project, the question of how social contacts affect the educational success and the apprenticeship search of students with and without a migra...
Directors : 
Irena Kogan
Researchers: 
Tobias Roth
Status: 
completed
RP8
Social and Ethnic Differences in Residential Choices more
The study aimed to explain differences in residential choices of ethnic and social groups in Germany. While previous studies suggested several explana...
Directors : 
Hartmut Esser
Researchers: 
Andreas Horr, Marieke Volkert
Status: 
completed

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