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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael (contributor);  … - 2007
The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435431
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Sinkende Bildungsrenditen durch Bildungsreformen? : Evidenz aus Mikrozensus und SOEP
Göggel, Kathrin (contributor) - 2007
Die Bildungsreformen der sechziger Jahre sollten das Bildungsniveau der Westdeutschen anheben. Die Analyse der Daten des Mikrozensus weist darauf hin, dass die durch die Bildungsreformen intendierte Bildungsexpansion schon vor 1960 begonnen hat. Mit dem Conditional Mean Independence Ansatz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003447760
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445166
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Die Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf das Gründungsgeschehen in Deutschland
Gottschalk, Sandra (contributor);  … - 2008
Die demografische Entwicklung in Deutschland wird auf mittlere Sicht zu einer nennenswerten Absenkung der bisher für … Strukturen in die Zukunft, dass die demografische Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland langfristig zu einer Absenkung des …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721788
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Long-run effects of public sector sponsored training in West Germany
Lechner, Michael (contributor); Miquel, Ruth (contributor);  … - 2005
Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new administrative data base that plausibly allows for selectivity correction by microeconometric matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003024909
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Human capital investment strategies in Europe
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2011
The paper analyses alternative investment policies and their consequences for the evolution of human capital in Europe based on a model of age dependent skill formation where the life span depends on investments during childhood. What makes the approach special is the analysis of the returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011243
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Bildungspolitik in Frankreich
Lauer, Charlotte - 2003
darzustellen und im Hinblick auf die bildungspolitische Debatte in Deutschland zu bewerten. Die allgemeinen Ziele der … Bildungspolitik - wie z.B. die Anhebung des Bildungsniveaus, die Verwirklichung sozialer Chancengleichheit, die Anpassung an den … Kosten - gelten zum Teil auch für Deutschland. Somit zeigen die in Frankreich ergriffenen Maßnahmen alternative Wege, auf …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448660
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Grade inflation, social background, and labour market matching
Schwager, Robert (contributor) - 2008
A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751787
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Noncognitive skills, Internet use and educational dropout
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Gernandt, Johannes (contributor) - 2008
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728547
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Short-term training programs for immigrants : do effects differ from natives and why?
Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010
We evaluate the effects of different short-term training programs on the employment chances of immigrant and native welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might cause these potential differences. In a first step,...
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