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Pisa : What Makes the Difference? Explaining the Gap in Pisa Test Scores between Finland and Germany
Ammermueller, Andreas - 2008
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/10014071300
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Training, Mobility, and Wages : Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred - 2008
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727241
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065313
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Apprenticeship Training in Germany - Investment or Productivity Driven?
Zwick, Thomas - 2008
profits. This can be interpreted as a first indication that most establishments in Germany do not invest more in apprentices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726537
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014052084
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071301
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Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions
Ammermueller, Andreas - 2008
Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063999
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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany
Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2018
This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706480
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Self-Productivity in Early Childhood
Coneus, Katja; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224615
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Duration and Intensity of Kindergarten Attendance and Secondary School Track Choice
Landvoigt, Tim; Mühler, Grit; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2008
This paper investigates the relationship between kindergarten attendance and secondary school track choice in West-Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224617