The paper investigates the effect of teacher characteristics (experience, level of education attainment and credentials, gender) on the achievement of eighth grade students using matched student-teacher data from the 1999, 2003 and 2007 TIMSS surveys. The analysis covers European countries, thus...

By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...

Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind Nachteile und Probleme der Privatisierung von Mietwohnungen über den Verkauf der Wohnungen an die Mieter. Die Verfasserin votiert für einen Erhalt des Mietwohnungssektors und eine schrittweise Privatisierung mit einem ständig steigenden Anteil privaten...

Educational accountability is a timely topic in Hungary, because the law of LXXI/2006 has practically introduced educational accountability. School report cards have been published for the third time in 2011 for each school with a 6th, 8th or 10th grade. These report cards publicize information...