With regard to the performance level of its school pupils the failure rate of Germany's education system remains … disadvantaged are the children of parents with a low level of education or with a migration background. Attending a school with a … the long run, educational failure can best be reduced by systematically expanding pre-school education, introducing …

"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 …

I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d … debate in this country. Various hypotheses concerning the evolution of returns to education and labour demand are tested. The … direct effects between education and income as well as the different transmission channels, such as occupational choices …

This paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades … both approaches produce estimates of average returns to education that decrease until the late 1990s and increase … afterwards. The gender gap in returns to education seems to vanish. Furthermore, we find that the so-called "baby boomer" cohort …

In addition to the traditional education system targeting children and youth, one potentially important vehicle to …