This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of … probability also depends on labour market return expectations. In particular, the absolute level of the personal unemployment risk …, rather than the reduction of the unemployment risk to be expected from higher education, is a strong incentive to pursue …

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the … significant wage cuts owing to the depreciation of human capital. Postponing the discontinuity leads to a further fall of the wage … depreciation rates. This we interpret as an indication for segregation in the labor market. We conclude that traditional wage …

market outcomes for apprentices in Germany and high school graduates in the United States. Apprentices in Germany occupy a … similar station within the German wage structure as held by high school graduates in the V.S. labor market. Finally, we … provide evidence that the problem of forming labor market bonds is particularly acute for minority youth in Germany as well as …

Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been 'rigid' in the 1990s. To test … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

less and have to compete with vocationally trained labor market entrants in a similar field of study? Focusing on Germany … universities are also related to higher risks of unemployment or fixed-term employment. Universities of applied sciences, which … combine academic and practical training, offer both high earnings and prestigious jobs as well as low risks of unemployment or …

Although explanations of the persistence of high unemployment in Germany, in particular long-term unemployment, have …, these factors are analyzed based on a microeconometric model of individual transitions from unemployment into employment and …-Economic Panel for West Germany covering the period 1983 to 1992. The focus of the study is on the importance of "negative duration …