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Education return and financing: Donated affluence as consequence of tuition free study programs in Germany
Petersen, Hans-Georg; Kirchner, Markus - 2008
The paper sheds some light on the education returns in Germany in the post war period. After describing higher … education in Germany the current stand of higher education financing within the single states is presented. In six states … qualified human capital in Germany. …
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Books are forever: Early life conditions, education and lifetime earnings in Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - 2012
We estimate the effect of education on lifetime income in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of compulsory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332243
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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages: evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009
This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269276
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Mobilisierung alternativer Finanzressourcen: Erfahrungen mit der Einführung von Studiengebühren: Vortrag bei der Tagung 'Quoi de neuf sur l'Allemagne? Les universités allemandes en...
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2008
Der vorgestellte Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die gegenwärtige Hochschulfinanzierung in Deutschland; kürzlich …The paper sheds some light on the financial structures of higher education in Germany. Recently in several member … states of Germany tuition fees have been introduced. Chapter II describes the current situation in Germany, the financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270847
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Family and gender still matter: the heterogeneity of returns to education in Germany
Schnabel, Reinhold; Schnabel, Isabel - 2002
the substantial political efforts to equalize educational opportunities in Germany. Persons with less-educated parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297750
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La distinction reloaded: Returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany
Krenz, Astrid - 2010
background in Germany. Bourdieu basically explains that family background leads to acquire specific levels of manners, attitudes … education all over the world already exists, however, studies for Germany, and in particular studies that focuss on the relation … motivation. Males do get more education than women. Educational policy in Germany should concentrate on enhancing access to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311689
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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 2000
Investitionen in Weiterbildung werden typischerweise durch die erwartete Zunahme individueller Fähigkeiten motiviert. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, von welchen sozio-ökonomischen und beruflichen Merkmalen die Teilnahme an formeller und informeller beruflicher Weiterbildung abhängt, und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297662
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000
– Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262344
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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262177
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Educational and wage risk: social insurance vs. quality of education
Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008
In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring the present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264529