Das deutsche Bildungssystem ist durch starke soziale Ungleichheiten am Studienübergang charakterisiert. Diese könnten durch individuelle Beratungen von Oberstufenschüler:innen abgebaut werden. Die Studie "Zukunfts- und Berufspläne nach dem Abitur" (ZuBAb) untersucht die Wirkung einer solchen...

The German education system is characterized by strong social inequalities in university access. These may be reduced by offering individual counseling sessions to students in their final two years of high school. The study "Zukunftsund Berufspläne nach dem Abitur" (ZuBAb)1 examines how such...

Policy interventions in large open economies do not only affect the allocation of domestic resources but change international market prices. The change in international prices implies an indirect secondary burden or benefit for all trading countries. This secondary terms of trade effect may have...

This paper seeks to analyze the set of characteristics that can explain the existence of slums (favelas) in Brazilian cities, based upon microdata from the 1999 edition of the National Household Survey (Pnad), published by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The paper is...