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Class rank and long-run outcomes
Denning, Jeffrey T.; Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2018
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment - what are the long run effects of a student's ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905519
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Hochschulranglisten als Qualitätsindikatoren im Wettbewerb der Hochschulen
Büttner, Thiess - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428518
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476804
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Persecution and escape
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2023
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481039
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The private and fiscal returns to higher education : a simulation approach for a young German cohort
Fischer, Benjamin; Hügle, Dominik - 2020
We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390722
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The German vocational education and training system : its institutional configuration, strengths, and challenges
Solga, Heike; Protsch, Paula; Ebner, Christian; … - 2014
Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of … enormously in the last years in many (European) countries, this has not been the case in Germany. From the outside, therefore, it … may look as if Germany’s low youth unemployment rate is to be credited to the dual system. That observation, however, is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429810
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Does a Bachelor's degree pay off? : labor market outcomes of academic versus vocational education after Bologna
Neugebauer, Martin; Weiss, Felix - 2017
less and have to compete with vocationally trained labor market entrants in a similar field of study? Focusing on Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636693
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Higher education funding in Germany : a distributional lifetime perspective
Hügle, Dominik - 2021
This paper analyzes higher education funding in Germany from a distributional perspective. For this, I first compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404163
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Scientist's industry engagement and the research agenda : evidence from Germany
Blandinieres, Florence; Pellens, Maikel - 2021
We investigate the impact of industry engagement on the direction of academic science. We apply the framework of the research agenda to assess to which extent industry engagement shifts the costs and benefits of pursuing and adopting research topics. Our empirical analysis, based on a survey of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420571
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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580842