Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the effects of extracurricular music activities on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how music training during childhood and youth affects the development of cognitive skills, school grades, personality,...

The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic framework for European cooperation in education and training. Designing adequate policies to combat...

We use European Union Labour Force Survey data for the period 2005-2018 to investigate the cyclicality of training in Europe. Consistent with the view that firms use recessions as times to update skills, we find that training participation is moderately countercyclical for the employed. Within...

Asylum seekers migrating to Germany remains a hotly debated topic. The second wave of a longitudinal survey of refugees shows that their integration has progressed significantly, even though some refugees came to Germany in poor health and with little formal education. Compared to the previous...

Vertrauen ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem ambivalenten Schlüsselbegriff geworden, der in Debatten um den vermeintlichen Vertrauensverlust im öffentlichen Leben wie gegenüber Politikern und Institutionen aufgegriffen wird. Der Begriff wird auch als Ursache für die Krise auf den globalen...

Im Jahr 2006 haben etwa 155 000 Deutsche ihr Land verlassen - mehr als je zuvor, sieht man einmal von der Auswanderungswelle der Nachkriegszeit in den 50er Jahren ab. Allerdings kehren auch viele Deutsche in ihre Heimat zurück. Obwohl die Frage nach den Ursachen für diesen Anstieg mittlerweile...