Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat beim Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie kritisiert, dass nicht alle Informationsquellen genutzt werden, um die Bildungspolitik möglichst gut auszugestalten. Ein Vergleich der schulpolitischen Maßnahmen zwischen den Bundesländern könnte neue...

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

We study the mechanisms that are associated with the gender education gap and its reversal in Germany. We focus on three outcomes, graduation from upper secondary school, any tertiary education, and tertiary degree. Neither individual and family background nor labor market characteristics appear...

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...

Der Zugang zu wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschungsdaten bleibt inDeutschland hinter den internationalen Standards zurück. Eine Umfrage unter den Mitgliederndes Vereins für Socialpolitik ergab eine große Unzufriedenheit mit dem Status quo. DieBeiträge des Zeitgesprächs geben...

In recent years, access to German research data on labour markets and social insurances has improved substantially. Never-theless, reforms are urgently needed to catch up with other countries. Among the most important measures, the German governmentshould legalise the merging of information from...

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...