La distinction reloaded: Returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany
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Keywords
Returns to Education; Cultural Capital; Social Capital; Inequality; Index Construction;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2010-08-06 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2010-08-06 (Labour Economics)
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