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The Interplay of Standardized Tests and Incentives – An Econometric Analysis with Data from PISA 2000 and PISA 2009
Helbach, Christoph - 2012
Since their first implementation in 2000, the PISA studies have attracted public attention and spurred the demand for …. Identification is based on within-country variation between PISA 2000 and PISA 2009. The results indicate that comparing schools by …Die PISA-Studien haben die Bildungspolitik in den vergangenen Jahren zunehmend in den Fokus der Öffentlichkeit gerückt …
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The Interplay of Standardized Tests and Incentives – An Econometric Analysis with Data from PISA 2000 and PISA 2009
Helbach, Christoph - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
Since their first implementation in 2000, the PISA studies have attracted public attention and spurred the demand for …. Identification is based on within-country variation between PISA 2000 and PISA 2009. The results indicate that comparing schools by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561280
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Effectiveness of Public R&D Subsidies in East Germany – Is it a Matter of Firm Size?
Reinkowski, Janina; Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; … - 2010
This paper analyses the impact of public subsidies on private sector research and development (R&D) activity for East German firms. Using propensity score matching, our empirical results indicate that subsidized firms indeed show a higher level of R&D intensity and a higher probability for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273581
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Effectiveness of Public R&D Subsidies in East Germany – Is it a Matter of Firm Size?
Reinkowski, Janina; Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010
This paper analyses the impact of public subsidies on private sector research and development (R&D) activity for East German firms. Using propensity score matching, our empirical results indicate that subsidized firms indeed show a higher level of R&D intensity and a higher probability for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671628
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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany – Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - 2013
We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. This allows us to estimate more than one local average treatment effect and heterogeneous effects for different groups of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331343
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Effects of the Bologna Reform on educational outcomes: Micro evidence from Germany
Hahm, Sabrina; Kluve, Jochen - 2016
The Bologna Process aimed at harmonizing European higher education systems and at increasing their efficiency. This paper analyzes impacts of the Bologna Reform for Germany by using unique micro data from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). We estimate treatment effects on the probability to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541432
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Analyzing further training participation rates across waves in the NEPS data
Rzepka, Sylvi - 2016
The spell-based nature of the National Educational Panel Study poses some challenges for analyzing training participation rates across waves. Raw training participation rates of each wave using courses compiled in the SpCourses data set and in the SpEmp data set differ by up to 75 percent across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559322
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Occupational mismatch of immigrants in Europe: The role of education and cognitive skills
Cim, Merve; Kind, Michael Sebastian; Kleibrink, Jan - 2017
Occupational mismatch is a wide-spread phenomenon among immigrants in many European countries. Mismatch, predominantly measured in terms of education, is often regarded as a waste of human capital. Such discussions, however, ignore the imperfect comparability of international educational degrees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632298
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Returns to Education in Europe – Detailed Results from a Harmonized Survey
Middendorf, Torge - 2008
We use the European Community Household Panel, a harmonized data set covering the countries of the European Union, to provide detailed estimates of the returns to education. Our results can be summarized as follows. Firstly, average returns to education have been mostly stable during the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264735
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Does learning beget learning throughout adulthood? Evidence from employees' training participation
Kramer, Anica; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational investments in later periods. This paper addresses the question whether the complementarity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479750