Das Bildungssystem erfährt aktuell eine Neuorientierung von ehemals ausschließlich inputorientierten Steuerungsgrößen hin zu outputorientierten Elementen der Qualitätssicherung in Schulen und Hochschulen. Ein zentrales Instrument in diesem Reformprozess sind Bildungsstandards. Im...

In jüngster Zeit gewinnt die Diskussion um eine ökonomische Grundbildung als Teil von Allgemeinbildung an Dynamik. Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgeberverbände fordern gemeinsam ein eigenes Unterrichtsfach Wirtschaft. Bildungspolitiker plädieren für eine Anreicherung wirtschaftlicher Inhalte in...

Auf einer funktionalen Definition von Bildung gründend setzt sich der Beitrag mit den Anforderungen auseinander, die die moderne Gesellschaft an die Gestaltung von (schulischen) Bildungsprozessen stellt. Dabei steht die Perspektive der Möglichkeit zur individuellen Wahrnehmung...

Many policy makers and economists argue that financial literacy is key to financial well-being. But why do many individuals remain financially illiterate despite the apparent importance of being financially informed? This paper presents results of a field study linking individual decisions to...

This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory isto integrate theories describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justiceand self-esteem), status, power, identity, and happiness - bringing under a single theoreticalumbrella...

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to anincrease in the variance of transitory shocks? The implications for consumption and welfaredepend crucially on the answer to this question. We use CEX repeated cross-section data onconsumption and income to...

This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...

In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countriesthat are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognisedthat they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men onaverage under...

When treatment effects of active labour market programmes are heterogeneous in anobservable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into differentprogrammes becomes a particularly important issue. In this paper, we present a statisticalmodel designed to improve the present...

A large empirical literature documents a rise in wage inequality in the American economy. Itis silent on whether the increase in inequality is due to greater heterogeneity in thecomponents of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether it is due to greateruncertainty faced by agents...