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Educational Attainment and Returns to Education in Germany

Ammermueller, Andreas; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2008

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 …

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Human Capital Investment Strategies in Europe

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2011

The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...

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Age-Dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2008

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity

Maier, Michael F.; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2008

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to education. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy

Konrad, Kai A. - 1999

Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the context of time consistent labor income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the effectiveness of public education as a second best policy.

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Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2010

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio …

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Return and Risk of Human Capital Contracts

Kroencke, Tim Alexander - 2013

Human capital contracts give private investors the right to a share of students' future earnings in return for a fi nancial contribution during their studies. Although still rarely used, human capital contracts could not only help to complement limited public funding for higher education but...

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Do better schools lead to more growth? Cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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Skill Policies for Scotland

Heckman, James Joseph; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - 2004

This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...

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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings

Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012

Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...

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