Die Arbeitsmarktchancen von HochschulabsolventInnen rücken schon seit geraumer Zeit massiv in das Zentrum des bildungs- wie arbeitsmarktpolitischen Interesses. Dafür verantwortlich ist das erklärte Ziel, einerseits den Anteil an tertiären Abschlüssen zu erhöhen und andererseits die...

Der vorliegende AMS report 57 beinhaltet Beiträge anläßlich der von der Abteilung Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation des AMS Österreich veranstalteten Fachtagung "Perspektiven der Beschäftigung von HochschulabsolventInnen: Schlußfolgerungen für die Studien- und Berufsberatung"....

We estimate tax multipliers in a "Blanchard-Yaari" consumption model where Ricardian equivalence is broken because the private sector discounts the future at a faster rate than the real rate of interest. The model fits U.S. data since 1955 extremely well-entailing a discount wedge of around 20...

The pattern of economic rates of return to investments in education can help us to understand the benefits of schooling. It was common knowledge that the returns to education were highest for the primary level of education and lower for subsequent levels. Recent evidence suggests that the...

The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus extend the recent empirical literature, which is mainly concerned with its measurement at a specific point in time. Using repeated cross-section surveys for five European...

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Azerbaijan, using the 2015 Azerbaijan Monitoring Survey for Social Welfare. The private rate of return to education is 6 percent; this is the first estimate of returns to schooling in Azerbaijan since 1995. The returns...

This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the 2017 Household Labor Force Survey and alternative methodologies. The analysis uses the 1997 education reform of increasing compulsory education by three years as an instrument. This results in a...

This paper provides an analysis of the rural-urban divide in intergenerational educational mobility in Indonesia with two distinguishing features. First, the estimating equations are derived from theory incorporating rural-urban differences in returns to education and school quality, and...