In this paper, the course-related training of elderly workers in Switzerland isanalysed with data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey. Elderly individuals invest substantialamounts in their human capital via course-related training...

This paper explores the impact of university finance reforms on teachingquality. It is shown that the graduate tax can achieve efficiency with tuitionfees administered by the government, while student grants, pure and incomecontingent loans are bound to fail. All options are inefficient when...

Student loans schemes are in operation in more than seventy countries around the world.Most loans schemes benefit from sizeable built-in government subsidies and, in addition, aresubject to repayment default and administrative costs that are not passed on to studentborrowers. We probe two issues...

Any opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published inthis series may include views on policy, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions.The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international...

Die Wissensgesellschaft ist inzwischen Realität. Wettbewerbsvorteile und hoheWertschöpfung werden über Vorsprünge in Wissen und dessen Anwendungerreicht. Reiche Regionen existieren dort, wo innovative Cluster bestehen.Technologietransfer entstand aus der Notwendigkeit, an Hochschulen...

Bei Public Private Partnerships (PPP) spielt der Wirtschaftlichkeitsvergleich eine entscheidendeRolle. Er dient zur Ermittlung von Effizienzvorteilen und Einsparungen einerRealisierungsvariante (öffentlicher Eigenbau oder privatwirtschaftlich) und als Argumentationsgrundlagesowie Rechtfertigung...

Bei Public Private Partnerships (PPP) spielt der Wirtschaftlichkeitsvergleich eine entscheidendeRolle. Er dient zur Ermittlung von Effizienzvorteilen und Einsparungen einerRealisierungsvariante (öffentlicher Eigenbau oder privatwirtschaftlich) und als Argumentationsgrundlagesowie Rechtfertigung...

We analyze the two goals behind the European Bologna Process of increasing student mobility: enabling graduates to develop multi-cultural skills and increasing the quality of universities. We isolate three effects: 1) a competition effect that raises quality; 2) a free rider effect that lowers...

Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort themselves non-randomly into school districts and school districts...

This paper estimates the impact of peer achievement and variance on math achievement growth. It exploits exogenous variation in peer characteristics generated at the transition to upper-secondary school in a sample of Berlin fifth graders. Parents and schools are barely able to condition their...