Using data on German university graduates, this paper analyzes wage differentials by field of study at labor market entry and five to six years later. At both points in time, graduates from Arts and Humanities have lower average monthly wages compared to other fields of study. Blinder-Oaxaca...

This paper analyzes the effect of the introduction of performance-related funding in the German university sector. Starting in the 1990‘s, the federal states of Germany introduced incentive-based funding systems in order to increase universities‘ performance and efficiency. We estimate the...

In dieser Teilstudie werden Indikatoren zu Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten (FuE) der deutschen Wirtschaft in Bezug auf Nachfrager und Anbieter von FuE-Dienstleistungen untersucht. Auf Grundlage der verfügbaren Daten der FuE-Erhebung der Wissenschaftsstatistik im Stifterverband für die...

[Einleitung:] Die umfassende Bildungsexpansion, die in Deutschland seit den 1960er Jahre vonstatten ging, hat dazu geführt, dass deutschlandweit nur noch jeder zehnte Schüler an einer Hauptschule lernt und sich die Rolle der Hauptschule und die Stellung von Hauptschulabsolventen im Zeitablauf...

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

There is a large literature on the influence of institutional characteristics on student academic achievement. In contrast, relatively little research focuses on student time allocation and its effects on student performance. This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the effect...

This paper examines the patterns of educational assortative mating in East and West Germany. In the literature it is well known that individuals do not mate randomly with respect to social and cultural traits, and that highly assortative mating can lead to polarization and exacerbate economic...

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...