compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also …

compulsory schooling on wages in Germany. We go beyond these studies and test a potential reason for it, namely that basic skills … have a causal effect on cognitive skills in Germany. This is consistent with the explanation for zero effects of schooling … are learned earlier in Germany and additional years of schooling are not effective anymore. This is done by also …

– Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany …, but find no evidence for these explanations. We conjecture that the result might be due to the fact that the basic skills …

the improvements in the provision of skills needed by market economies during this period. On the demand side, the …

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. …

complementarity between language skills and both schooling and preimmigration experience. That is, greater proficiency in the official …