Lifting the iron curtain: School-age education and entrepreneurial intentions.

Autor/inn/en	Falck, Oliver; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan
Titel	Lifting the iron curtain: School-age education and entrepreneurial intentions. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Den Eisernen Vorgang lüften: Schulbildung und unternehmerische Neigung.
Quelle	In: Journal of economic geography, 17 (2017) 5, S. 1111-1148 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-2702; 1468-2710
DOI	10.1093/jeg/lbw026
Schlagwörter	Zukunftsperspektive; Sekundarbereich; Schulbildung; Staatlicher Zusammenschluss; Berufliche Selbstständigkeit; Berufserwartung; Berufswahl; Berufswunsch; Regionale Herkunft; Schulabgänger
Abstract	"We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and informal education in a free-market economy, while East German students did or did not receive free-market education. Difference-in-differences estimations show that school-age education in a free-market economy increases entrepreneurial intentions. An event study supports the common-trends assumption. Results remain robust in matched samples and when we exploit within-student variation in occupational intentions to control for unobserved individual characteristics." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/2