education to decide on the optimal amount of education they want to invest in. In an extension of the model, the educational …

different procedures for imputing the pre-unification education variable in the BASiD data. To do so, we exploit information on … education-related periods that are creditable for the Pension Insurance. Combining these periods with information on the … (overpredict) the share of high-skilled (low-skilled) for the oldest age groups. Comparing our imputed education variable with …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …. The risk of entering unemployment is particularly high for French employees with poor education, but higher education … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …

spite of huge differences in the distribution of education in France and Germany, these countries prove surprisingly similar …