This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data ontasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital tomeasure the transferability of skills empirically. Our results on occupational mobility andwages show that labor...

In response to PISA, all German federal states but one have adopted central exitexaminations (CEEs) at the end of all secondary school tracks. Theoretically, the advantagesof CEEs are fairly undisputed. CEEs make teaching and learning output observable andcomparable across schools, and provide...

Economic theory suggests that it is optimal to reward teachers depending on therelative performance of their students. We develop an econometric approach, based onstochastic frontier analysis, to construct a fair ranking that accounts for the socio-economicbackground of students and schools and...

Das deutsche Bildungssystem steht auf dem Prüfstand. Nach den international verglei-chenden Schulstudien der vergangenen Jahre wird in Deutschland über neue, ungewohnte Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten nachgedacht. Reformen des Bildungssystems sind denkbar gewor-den, die es ohne die Debatte um PISA...