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Information provision and preferences for education spending : evidence from representative survey experiments in three countries
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2019
treatments in Switzerland using identical survey techniques previously used in Germany and the United States. In Switzerland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123030
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Too old to work, too young to retire?
Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003612649
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Skills, signals, and employability : an experimental investigation
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Simon, Lisa; … - 2018
As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals. To study which signals are valued by employers, we simultaneously and independently randomize a broad range of skill signals on pairs of resumes of fictitious applicants among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789115
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544331
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The information value of central school exams
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
The central vs. local nature of high-school exit exam systems can have important repercussions on the labor market. By increasing the informational content of grades, central exams may improve the sorting of students by productivity. To test this, we exploit the unique German setting where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283839
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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015
extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528303
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Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes
Piopiunik, Marc; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2012
market, as well as with lower unemployment. -- central exit exams ; earnings ; unemployment ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621692
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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013
default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709423
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Migration background and educational tracking : is there a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrants?
Lüdemann, Elke; Schwerdt, Guido - 2010
immigrants. -- immigration ; educational inequalities ; educational tracking ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749042
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Panel cointegration tests on the fiscal sustainability of German Laender
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014
newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388585