outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

economic importance of the jack-of-all-trades theory. …

for social custom effects in the determination of union membership. Using panel data for Germany, we find evidence for …

tracking. We calibrate the model for Germany and study how relative demand shifts toward more general skills and changes in the …

provisions on worker flows. In contrast to the predictions of the theory, our results indicate that there are no statistically …