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Education return and financing : donated affluence as consequence of tuition free study programs in Germany
Petersen, Hans-Georg; Kirchner, Markus - Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Wirtschafts- und … - 2008
The paper sheds some light on the education returns in Germany in the post war period. After describing higher … education in Germany the current stand of higher education financing within the single states is presented. In six states … qualified human capital in Germany. …
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Mobilisierung alternativer Finanzressourcen : Erfahrungen mit der Einführung von Studiengebühren
Petersen, Hans-Georg - Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft, Wirtschafts- und … - 2008
The paper sheds some light on the financial structures of higher education in Germany. Recently in several member … states of Germany tuition fees have been introduced. Chapter II describes the current situation in Germany, the financial … information on the education returns in Germany in the post war period. The analysis over the whole lifecycle renders results …
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The Policy Determinants of Investment in Tertiary Education
Martins, Joaquim Oliveira; Boarini, Romina; Strauss, Hubert - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
This paper assesses how policies and institutions affect private returns to invest in tertiary human capital, the ability of individuals to finance this investment and the institutional characteristics of tertiary education systems. Focusing on core tertiary education services, the paper...
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The Private Internal Rates of Return to Tertiary Education: New Estimates for 21 OECD Countries
Boarini, Romina; Strauss, Hubert - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
This study provides estimates of the private Internal Rates of Return (IRR) to tertiary education for women and men in 21 OECD countries, for the years between 1991 and 2005. IRR are computed by estimating labour market premia on cross-country comparable individual-level data. Labour market...
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Investment in Tertiary Education : Main Determinants and Implications for Policy
Boarini, Romina; Strauss, Hubert; de la Maisonneuve, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2008
Many OECD countries are aiming to reform their tertiary education (TE) systems. This work explores the determinants of the investment in TE, with a focus on institutional setting of TE systems and private incentives to undertake years of schooling beyond upper-secondary degree level. For this...
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Educational institutions and equality of opportunity
Schütz, Gabriela - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
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...
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Einkommensentwicklung im Freistaat Sachsen
Arent, Stefan; Nagl, Wolfgang; Ragnitz, Joachim - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
Die Studie stellt die Bruttolohn- und Tariflohnentwicklung von Arbeitnehmern in der Privatwirtschaft und Angestellten im öffentlichen Dienst seit der Wiedervereinigung gegenüber. Dabei werden auch Sonderleistungen (wie Urlaubs- und Weihnachtsgeld, Überstundenzuschläge usw.), flexible...
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Schooling and the Formation of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Outcomes
Lüdemann, Elke - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
This study was prepared by Elke Lüdemann while she was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The subject of this study is a micro...
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Capital Market Failure, Adverse Selection and Equity Financing of Higher Education
Jacobs, Bas - 2005
We apply theories of capital market failure to analyze optimal financing of risky higher education. In the market solution, students can only finance their education through debt. There is underinvestment in human capital, because some students with socially profitable investments in human...
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Capital-Market Failure, Adverse Selection, and Equity Financing of Higher Education
Jacobs, Bas; Wijnbergen, Sweder J. G. van - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 63 (2007) 1, pp. 1-32
We apply theories of capital-market failure to analyze optimal financing of risky higher education. In the market solution, students can only finance theireducation through debt. There is underinvestment in human capital because some students with socially profitable investments in human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005582135