This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 … rather increasing and are higher than male ones in the public sector. Moreover, not all education degrees yield the same …

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born … sector, the returns to a further year of post-compulsory education fell from twelve per cent for the 1945-49 cohort to about … seven per cent for those born in the early 1970s. Cohort effects in men's returns to education are less obvious, but we do …

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 … rather increasing and are higher than male ones in the public sector. Moreover, not all education degrees yield the same …

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born … sector, the returns to a further year of post-compulsory education fell from twelve per cent for the 1945-49 cohort to about … seven per cent for those born in the early 1970s. Cohort effects in men's returns to education are less obvious, but we do …