Economists study the formation of human capital over the life cycle and its welfare consequences. Teaching is regarded as the major channel for fostering skills and human capital. According to political rhetoric…
This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in adolescence and early adulthood. I estimate a flexible proportional hazard rate model for the…
Disconnectedness among young adults can have several dimensions. From a socio-economic viewpoint, failure in school, unemployment and the lack of a partner are among the most important ones. In our sample of…
Life-long learning is considered necessary to sustain employability at older age in light of continuous changes in the labor market. Nevertheless, it is a challenge to sustain the training of employees…
In this paper, we examine how school enrollment at a relatively younger or older age in relation to age-based cut-off dates for school entry affects the development of non-cognitive skills. Specifically, we…
The goal of clustering is to partition the objects (here: persons) into groups which ideally should be homogenous and well-separated (i.e. low within-group and high between-groups heterogeneity). In the context…
The education variable in the IAB datasets suffers from problems like missing and misclassified values. The data problems do not occur randomly, but are highly associated with other variables from the dataset.…