Flexible societies excelled in saving lives in the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

Autor: Jianghong Li, Plamen Akaliyski, Jan Paul Heisig, Simon Löbl, Michael Minkov

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 13 (2022)

BackgroundPrevious studies have shown that national cultural traits, such as collectivism–individualism and tightness–looseness, are associated with COVID-19 infection and mortality rates. However, although East Asian countries have outperformed

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Measuring the signaling value of educational degrees: secondary education systems and the internal homogeneity of educational groups

Autor: Jan Paul Heisig

Publikováno v: Large-scale Assessments in Education, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-35 (2018)

Abstract Background By providing high-quality, internationally comparable data on the cognitive skills of working-age adults, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) offers great potential for illuminating the com

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Explaining the training disadvantage of less-educated workers: the role of labor market allocation in international comparison

Autor: Carla Hornberg, Jan Paul Heisig, Heike Solga

Publikováno v: Socio-Economic Review.

Less-educated workers have the lowest participation rates in job-related further training across the industrialized world, but the extent of their disadvantage varies. Using data on 28 high- and middle-income countries, we assess different explanatio

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https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwad023

Multilevel Analysis with Few Clusters: Improving Likelihood-Based Methods to Provide Unbiased Estimates and Accurate Inference

Autor: Martin Elff, Susumu Shikano, Jan Paul Heisig, Merlin Schaeffer

Publikováno v: British Journal of Political Science
Elff, M, Heisig, J P, Schaeffer, M & Shikano, S 2021, ' Multilevel Analysis with Few Clusters : Improving Likelihood-Based Methods to Provide Unbiased Estimates and Accurate Inference ', British Journal of Political Science, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 412-426 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123419000097

Quantitative comparative social scientists have long worried about the performance of multilevel models when the number of upper-level units is small. Adding to these concerns, an influential Monte Carlo study by Stegmueller (2013) suggests that stan

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007123419000097

Explaining wage differentials by field of study among higher education graduates: Evidence from a large-scale survey of adult skills

Autor: Thijs Bol, Jan Paul Heisig

Publikováno v: Social Science Research, 99:102594. Academic Press Inc.

Why do some fields of study in higher education yield higher wage returns in the labor market than others? Human capital perspectives suggest that differences in skills are a major source of between-fields wage differentials. We assess this explanati

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https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/869e422d-6ea7-478a-9d21-ce6aea9df9ab