Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it...

Die vorliegende Studie untersucht, ob der Rahmenlehrplan des Bildungsgangs <<dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/ in Höhere Fachschule> an den Höheren Fachschulen für Wirtschaft (RLP HFW) den Anforderungen von Studierenden und Arbeitgebern gerecht wird. Dabei werde Schwachstellen identifiziert, die auf Verbesserungspotential bei einer Revision des RLP...</<dipl.>

Entrepreneurship education ranks highly on policy agendas in Europe and the US, but little research is available to assess its impacts. In this context it is of primary importance to understand whether entrepreneurship education raises intentions to be entrepreneurial generally or whether it...

Ergebnis 1: Verankerung des Themas Mitbestimmung. Das Thema Mitbestimmung ist nicht grundsätzlich Teil des Lehrplans. Die untersuchten Studiengänge greifen es selten und selektiv auf. - Ergebnis 2: Verortung des Themas Mitbestimmung. Mit dem Thema Mitbestimmung setzen sich am ehesten die...

Despite improved access to all educational levels, many countries around the world struggle with integrating young people into the labor market. The 2007 economic crisis exacerbated the problem, but not all countries were affected in the same way. This led to a vivid debate about how education...

We present a regression-based generalization of the calendar time portfolio approach which allowsfor the inclusion of continuous and multivariate investor or firm characteristics in the analysis. Ourmethod is simple to apply and it ensures that the statistical results are heteroscedasticity...

Baker (2002) has demonstrated theoretically that the quality of performance measures used in compensation contracts hinges on two characteristics: noise and distortion. These criteria, though, will only be useful in practice as long as the noise and distortion of a performance measure can be...

This paper explores performance measurement in incentive plans. Based on theory, we argue that differences in the nature of jobs between blue- and white-collar employees lead to differences in incentive systems. We find that performance measurement for white-collar workers is broader in terms of...

In this paper we analyze a dynamic agency problem where contracting parties do not know the agent's future productivity at the beginning of the relationship. We consider a two-period model where both the agent and the principal observe the agent's second-period productivity at the end of the...