This study deals with educational production in Austria and is focused on the potential impact of schoolmates on students' academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations yield substantial positive effects of the peer groups'...

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 as an instrument for schooling in order to cope with ability bias in a returns to education...

This study deals with educational production in Austria and is focused on the potential impact of schoolmates on students’ academic outcomes. We used PISA 2000 data to estimate peer effects for 15 and 16 year old students. The estimations yield substantial positive effects of the peer...

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany, and Austria and investigates the extent to which this gap can be explained by a mis-match between the actual and the years of schooling typical for a given occupation. The...

Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date, has a causal effect on track choice. Using a sample of male labor market entrants drawn from Austrian register data, I analyze whether the initial assignment to different school...

Die Arbeitsmarktchancen von HochschulabsolventInnen rücken schon seit geraumer Zeit massiv in das Zentrum des bildungs- wie arbeitsmarktpolitischen Interesses. Dafür verantwortlich ist das erklärte Ziel, einerseits den Anteil an tertiären Abschlüssen zu erhöhen und andererseits die...

Der vorliegende AMS report 57 beinhaltet Beiträge anläßlich der von der Abteilung Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation des AMS Österreich veranstalteten Fachtagung 'Perspektiven der Beschäftigung von HochschulabsolventInnen: Schlußfolgerungen für die Studien- und Berufsberatung'....