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Can the university save Europe?
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2012
research would be helpful. Universities can contribute to recreating hope and optimism through more innovation in the economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009561436
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Reducing regional disparities for inclusive growth in Spain
McGowan, Muge Adalet; San Millán, Juan Antona - 2019
barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111044
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The education-innovation gap
Biasi, Barbara; Ma, Song - 2022
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the … text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, we construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus's relative … proximity to old and new knowledge. We show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013167978
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Determinants of work-related training : an investigation of observed and unobserved firm-, job- and worker-heterogeneity
Steffes, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2019
One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014276
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Inequality in personality over the life cycle
Gensowski, Miriam; Gørtz, Mette; Schurer, Stefanie - 2020
We describe gender and socioeconomic inequalities in the Big Five personality traits over the life cycle, using a facet-level inventory linked to administrative data. We estimate life-cycle profiles non-parametrically and test for cohort and sample-selection effects. We discuss the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239166
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Transmission channels of intergenerational income mobility : empirical evidence from Germany and the Unites States
Coban, Mustafa; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2017
Relying on harmonized individual data for Germany and the United States, we perform a country comparison regarding the underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we estimate the relative importance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770657
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Inequality of educational opportunities and the role of learning intensity : evidence from a quasi-experiment in Germany
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian - 2018
Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the curriculum unchanged. Exploiting quasi-experimental variation due to the staggered introduction of this reform allows me to identify the causal effect of increased learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840590
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Better together? : heterogeneous effects of tracking on student achievement
Matthewes, Sönke Hendrik - 2018
This study estimates mean and distributional effects of early between-school ability tracking on student achievement. For identification, I exploit heterogeneity in tracking regimes between German federal states. After comprehensive primary school, about 40% of students are selected for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938776
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The role of information for public preferences on education - evidence from representative survey experiments
Werner, Katharina - 2019
The aim of this doctoral project is an empirical analysis of questions concerning economics of education, in particular education policy. The first key aspect is the relationship between public opinion and the level of information of the population. As part of this, a first research project...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966937
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Naturalisation and investments in children's human capital : evidence from a natural experiment
Haaren-Giebel, Friederike von - 2016 - This version: 18 February 2016
This paper assesses educational attainment of immigrant children, in particular evaluating whether naturalised parents invest more in their children's human capital than non-naturalised parents. Findings of the literature indicate that citizenship is associated with lower return migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488963