Education, skills & labor-market success : microeconometric analyses using large-scale skills assessments

Franziska Bernadette Hampf prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education. The study was completed in September 2019 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays investigating various aspects of the link between education, productive skills, and individual labor-market success, primarily using information from largescale skills assessments. Chapter 2 and 4 employ - among others - instrumental variable estimations, while Chapter 3 uses a fixed effects framework. Furthermore, Chapter 5 applies a difference-in-differences design to answer the underlying research question.