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 …

compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling …

In this paper, I evaluate potential side effects of the educational expansion in Germany on the learning outcomes of …In dieser Studie evaluiere ich mögliche Nebeneffekte der weitestgehend abgeschlossenen Bildungsexpansion in Deutschland …

Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze micro-census data … first time for Germany in such detail. The data indicate an educational expansion, especially for women in West Germany … degree subjects in West than in East Germany, especially for women …