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How the financial crisis and Great Recession affected higher education
Brown, Jeffrey R. (contributor);  … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010499651
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The End of Free College in England : Implications for Quality, Enrolments, and Equity
Murphy, Richard - 2017
Despite increasing financial pressures on higher education systems throughout the world, many governments remain resolutely opposed to the introduction of tuition fees, and some countries and states where tuition fees have been long established are now reconsidering free higher education. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453825
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The Endless Frontier : Reaping what Bush Sowed?
Stephan, Paula - 2013
I examine and document how the Endless Frontier changed the research landscape at universities and how universities responded to the initiative. I show that the agencies it established and funded initially recruited research proposals from faculty and applications from students for fellowships...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458975
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef - 2007
to apprenticeship training for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465308
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while … files from the PSID (US) and the GSOEP (Germany), we demonstrate how factor movements within these countries are associated … capital over the 1979-96 period, while Germany accumulated factors in a more balanced manner …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064
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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences
Freeman, Richard B. - 2000
Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … jobs problem in Germany is one of a general lack in demand for labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471302
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Trade, Human Capital, and Income Risk
Deng, Liuchun; Krishna, Pravin; Senses, Mine Zeynep; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
human capital plays in this relationship using a rich, worker-level, longitudinal data set from Germany spanning 1976 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794639
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Capital Structure and a Firm’s Workforce
Matsa, David A. - 2018
While businesses require funding to start and grow, they also rely on human capital, which affects how they raise funds. Labor market frictions make financing labor different than financing capital. Unlike capital, labor cannot be owned and can act strategically. Workers face unemployment costs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480777
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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany : Evidence and Interpretation
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2005
the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467265
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Young and Out in Germany : On the Youths' Chances of Labor Market Entrance in Germany
Franz, Wolfgang - 1997
This paper deals with the labor market entrance of young people in the Federal Republic" of Germany. The main focus is … on failures during this stage. First, an overview of the youth" labor market in Germany is given. Then, the transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472598