Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of migration…
In Germany, the entry into the labor market for students in the nonacademic tracks of secondary schools may take multiple pathways. Students graduating from lower track secondary schools (LTSS) face major…
Abstract: This study provides life-cycle evidence on the relationship between childhood investments (contexts), cognitive and non-cognitive skills, and life outcomes (social progress). From a policy perspective,…
This paper examines the forces driving skill selectivity of regional migration in a context where modelling the migration decision as a wage-maximising process may be insufficient due to persistent employment…