Die verschiedenen Schulungsmaßnahmen des Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich stehen nicht zuletzt wegen der Frage nach ihrer nachhaltigen Wirkung zur Arbeitsmarktintegration im besonderen öffentlichen Interesse. Gesichtspunkte wie die Struktur der verschiedenen Maßnahmen, ihre Wirkung...

Vor mehr als 30 Jahren wurde in den meisten Industrieländern der Bildungsnotstand ausgerufen. Neueste Erhebungen der OECD und von EUROSTAT zeigen, dass seither das Ausbildungsniveau der Bevölkerung in allen OECD-Ländern deutlich angestiegen ist. Von der Ausweitung der Hochschulausbildung...

This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income - post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the...

Economists have long recognized and measured the effect of education on an individual's own lifetime earnings. More recently, attention has been paid to the effects of education on other personal and social outcomes, such as criminal behavior, health and mortality, and voting and democratic...

This paper discusses the relationship between education and crime from an economic perspective, developing a human capital-based model that sheds light on key ways in which early childhood programs and policies that encourage schooling may affect both juvenile and adult crime. The paper first...

Using a model of O-ring production function, the paper demonstrates how certain communities can get caught in a low-literacy trap in which each individual finds it not worthwhile investing in higher skills because others are not high-skilled. The model sheds light on educational policy. It is...

Following the great expansion of secondary education in the United States between 1910 and 1940, Sweden was one of the first Western European countries to attempt such an expansion by increasing the years of compulsory schooling and and improving access to academic type education by abolishing...