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A Model of Educational Attainment: Application to the German Case
Lauer, Charlotte - 2002
This paper aims at formulating a theoretical model of educational attainment which is directly implementable empirically. The conceptual frame-work relies on the human capital theory, where individuals weigh the costs and the returns of education to decide on the optimal amount of education they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298115
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Aging and Pension Reform : Extending the Retirement Age and Human Capital Formation
Vogel, Edgar - 2012
Projected demographic changes in industrialized countries will reduce the share of the working-age population. Analyses based on standard OLG models predict that these changes will increase the capital-labor ratio. Hence, rates of return to capital decrease and wages increase with adverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100571
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Credit Constraints and Investment in Human Capital : Training Evidence from Transition Economies
Popov, Alexander A. - 2013
Using a unique survey database of 8265 firms from 25 transition economies, I find that lack of access to finance in general, and to bank credit in particular, is associated with significantly lower investment in on-the-job training. This effect is stronger in education-intensive industries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073659
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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297724
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PISA: What Makes the Difference? Explaining the Gap in PISA Test Scores Between Finland and Germany
Ammermüller, Andreas - 2004
The huge difference in the level and variance of student performance in the 2000 PISA study between Finland and Germany … scores than Finnish students. The results imply that early streaming in Germany penalizes students in lower school types and … school types. Overall, the variation in test scores can be explained much better by the observable characteristics in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297320
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Family background, cohort and education: A French-German comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2002
This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany … spite of huge differences in the distribution of education in France and Germany, these countries prove surprisingly similar …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298109
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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from MARS
Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298078
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Entwicklung und Ungleichheit von Fähigkeiten: Anmerkungen aus ökonomischer Sicht
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2009
Bildungspolitik, den Zugang zu einer angemessenen emotionalen Fürsorge von Anfang an weiter zu verbessern. Darüber hinaus ist es …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298797
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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons: indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298808
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Federation's alternative tax constitutions and risky education
Poutvaara, Panu - 1999
We analyze a two-period modell where risk-averse students divide their time between risky education, leisure, and work. The educated can migrate. Wagetax financed transfer to students acts as an insurance, and increases both investment in education and demand for leisure. We drive sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297640