This study was prepared by Gabriela Schütz while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2008 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The topic of this study is an econometric analysis...

Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a...

This paper measures human capital development in the Japanese workforce after WWII. An increase in workers years of schooling is believed to have aided Japans economic growth after WWII. The development of human capital has acquired increasing importance for Japans future economic growth given...