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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching
Schwager, Robert - 2008
ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce the aggregate wage of the lower class workers because employers use … social origin as a signal for productivity if grades are less than fully informative. Moreover, the high-ability students … students from the lower classes. …
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The effects of the bologna process on college enrollment and drop-out rates
Horstschräer, Julia; Sprietsma, Maresa - 2010
This paper estimates the short-term effects of the introduction of the Bachelor degree in the framework of the Bologna Process on college enrollment and drop-out rates. We use variation in the timing of the Bachelor implementation at the department level to identify the effect of the reform...
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Who should pay for certification?
Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011
-induced certification acts as an inspection device, seller-induced certification as a signalling device. Seller-induced certification …
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An information economics perspective on main bank relationships and firm R&D
Hoewer, Daniel; Schmidt, Tobias; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2011
Information economics has emerged as the primary theoretical lens for framing financing decisions in firm R&D investment. Successful outcomes of R&D projects are either ex-ante impossible to predict or the information is asymmetrically distributed between inventors and investors. As a result,...
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Signalling in auctions: Experimental evidence
Bos, Olivier; Gomez-Martinez, Francisco; Onderstal, Sander - 2021
We study the relative performance of the first-price sealed-bid auction, the second-price sealed-bid auction, and the all-pay sealed-bid auction in a laboratory experiment where bidders can signal information through their bidding behaviour to an outside observer. We consider two different...
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Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement
Laucht, Manfred; Coneus, Katja; Blomeyer, Dorothea; … - 2008
This paper investigates the development of basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities from infancy to adolescence. We analyse the predictive power of these abilities, initial risk conditions and home resources for children's achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of...
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Enrolments in higher education in West Germany: the impact of social background, labour market returns and educational funding
Lauer, Charlotte - 2000
This paper analyses the determinants of participation in higher education in West Germany. In particular, the role of social origin as well as of expectations regarding the labour market outcome of a higher education degree and of public educational policy are examined. The estimations are based...
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Teaching, organization, and personal problems: Evidence from reforming tertiary education in Germany
Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2010
traditional degree program has affected first-year students' satisfaction. Three dimensions of student satisfaction are focused … indicator for students' personal problems within the academic context. The selection into the type of program is taken into … point to minor differences between the programs. The outcomes are slightly more favorable for students in the new programs …
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Decentralizing university admission: Evidence from a natural experiment
Horstschräer, Julia - 2012
experiment. Is the centralized or decentralized procedure better suited to match prospective students to universities? The … analysis uses administrative data on all students within Germany and complements the prominent theoretical literature on …
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Poor Background or Low Returns? Why Immigrant Students in Germany Perform so Poorly in PISA
Ammermüller, Andreas - 2005
groups of students performed so differently by estimating educational production functions, using an extension study with … method. The analysis shows that German students have on average more favorable characteristics and experience slightly higher … returns to these characteristics in terms of test scores than immigrant students. The later enrolment of immigrant students …
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