The PAISA exercise uses planning and budgeting systems as the entry point, it is an attempt to build an empirical understanding of current governance processes at the grassroots to push for a larger debate on state capacity and administrative capability for building an education delivery...

This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...

"The study reports comprehensively about further vocational training activities in the context of regular employment relationships in western and eastern Germany. In a comparative analysis of the participants in and the structure of further vocational training special emphasis is placed on a...

"Für den Produktionsstandort Deutschland ist das Humankapital eine der zentralen strategischen Größen. Nur durch qualifizierte Bildung, Aus- und Weiterbildung kann aber Humankapital gebildet und erhalten werden. Auch für den einzelnen ist höchstmögliche und kontinuierliche Qualifizierung...