Vor mehr als 30 Jahren wurde in den meisten Industrieländern der Bildungsnotstand ausgerufen. Neueste Erhebungen der OECD und von EUROSTAT zeigen, dass seither das Ausbildungsniveau der Bevölkerung in allen OECD-Ländern deutlich angestiegen ist. Von der Ausweitung der Hochschulausbildung...

Die Nutzung von künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) nimmt auch in der Handwerksorganisation - insbesondere im Zuge der schnellen Durchsetzung generativer KI in der Gesellschaft - deutlich zu, wodurch sich viele Anwendungsfelder zeigen, in denen Effizienz und Effektivität der Leistungserbringung für...

This paper attempts to bridge the gap between previous cross-national work estimating rates of return to education and the current trend toward examining rates over time. Changes in the returns to education in the 1980s over five countries were driven by different forces across the countries.

This paper studies how the structure and quality of education influence occupational choices and the distribution of wages. Structure refers to the age at which children are streamed into specialized programs as well as the proportion of students placed in each stream. The Roy (1951) model of...

This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and earnings inequality in eight nations using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database. Although the results should be considered exploratory rather than definitive until verified and qualified by more detailed...

This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the importance of controlling for unobserved heterogeneity when analyzing the labor market effects of...

Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I analyze the incidence, financing, and returns to workplace training in Germany for the years 1986 to 1989. Much of this training seems general, and is provided to workers by their employer at no direct cost. While workers typically report larger...

Thurow's job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...