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We estimate a labor supply model with German data on engineering enrollments and starting salaries. In one model agents have backward looking expectations, in the other rational expectations on future wages. Only the model with backward looking expectations delivers significant coefficients with...
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Gut ausgebildete Ingenieurinnen und Ingenieure, insbesondere aus den Bereichen Maschinenbau und Elektrotechnik werden …The demand for well-educated engineers remains high in Germany, particularly in the field of mechanical and electrical …
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Entscheidung für oder gegen ein Studium oder ein bestimmtes Studienfach führen. Demnach hängt die Studierneigung eines Individuums …
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This study represents a multi-method, multi-source, and longitudinal evaluation of a leadership development program in Germany. For the development of transformational leadership, the methods of leadership feedback, training, and coaching were combined into a program. The effects of this program...
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This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become … attendance of entrepreneurship classes in the same period. To account for a potential bias due to self-selection into … entrepreneurship classes, only individuals having no prior entrepreneurial intentions are analyzed. Our results indicate a stimulating …
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Berufsausbildung und Studium statt. Die vorliegende Studie liefert erstmalig einen umfassenden Überblick über solche innovativen …
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In this paper we evaluate the changes in the times-to-degree at the Finnish universities in the 1990s. In particular, we evaluate the effect of the 1992 student aid reform that was intended to shorten the duration of university studies. We find that the student aid reform had only a modest...
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Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class sizes. Using administrative records from a leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects...
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This paper studies career mobility of white male doctorates in natural sciences and engineering using the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (1973-2001). The paper focuses on two issues. First, it assesses the relevance of doctoral careers to sciences and engineering (S&E) in general, and research...
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workers: civilian scientists and engineers in U.S. Department of Defense laboratories. In contrast to the private sector …
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