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Educational Opportunities and the Role of Institutions
Ammermüller, Andreas - 2005
opportunities by schooling institutions. A difference-in-differences estimation approach is applied to control for country … more instruction time limits the impact of social origin on student performance. Higher school autonomy increases the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297451
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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002
Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297750
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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS
Ammermüller, Andreas; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
error in the peer background variable. When we correct for measurement error we find within school estimates close to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297535
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Education and Wage Inequality in Germany: A Review of the Empirical Literature
Weber, Andrea Maria; Ammermüller, Andreas - 2003
This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the link between education and wage inequality in Germany. The wage inequality is characterized by its stability, although a more detailed analysis reveals structural differences, especially between East and West Germany. Both the between and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297277
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Entwicklung und Ungleichheit von Fähigkeiten: Anmerkungen aus ökonomischer Sicht
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2009
Nirgends sonst im ökonomischen Handeln fallen Kosten und Nutzen im Zeitablauf und aufgeteilt nach Investoren und Nutznießern so eklatant auseinander wie bei Bildungsinvestitionen. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wird argumentiert, dass in der sozialen Realität die Bildungsungleichheit im...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298797
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Double Standards in Educational Standards: Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?
Himmler, Oliver; Schwager, Robert - 2007
model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level data. Since students in the Netherlands have to participate both in …A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are … a central and in a school specific examination, we can identify the grading policy of individual schools. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297884
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Double Standards in Educational Standards: Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?
Himmler, Oliver; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
model's predictions are tested using Dutch school-level data. Since students in the Netherlands have to participate both in …A simple model of decentralised graduation standards is presented. It is shown that a school whose students are … a central and in a school specific examination, we can identify the grading policy of individual schools. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097491
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Ganztagsschulen und Erwerbsbeteiligung von Müttern: Eine Mikrosimulationsstudie für Deutschland
Beblo, Miriam; Lauer, Charlotte; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2005
Der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen genießt derzeit – u.a. auf Grund des schlechten Abschneidens deutscher Schüler bei der PISA-Studie – hohe Priorität in der politischen Agenda. In diesem Beitrag soll untersucht werden, wie sich der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung von...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297506
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Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is broken down into the risk of entering unemployment and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297286
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What a Difference Immigration Law Makes: PISA Results, Migration Background and Social Mobility in Europe and Traditional Countries of Immigration
Minoiu, Nicoleta; Entorf, Horst - 2004
languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in European countries (France, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297318