This study examines the impact of the charging of tuition fees between 2006 and 2014 in several German federal states on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public institutions, the fundamental question arises of whether,...

The literature shows a wage premium for graduates from high quality, elite, or more selective universities. The results, however, exist for countries with a clear hierarchy of top universities, such as the US, England, and Australia. I evaluate if such an effect also exists in Germany, a country...

We quantify the private and fiscal lifetime returns to higher education in Germany accounting for the redistribution through the tax-and-transfer system, cohort effects, and the effect of income pooling within households. For this purpose we build a dynamic microsimulation model that simulates...

Flucht und Migration sind alte und weltweite Phänomene. Letztes Jahr hat jedoch die Zahl der Flüchtlinge nach Europa und insbesondere Deutschland stark zugenommen, während die deutsche Bundeskanzlerin die bis dahin geltenden europäischen und deutschen Regeln außer Kraft setzte. Dies stellt...

In diesem Papier wird der Effekt der Einführung von leistungsorientierter Mittelvergabe (LOM) im deutschen Hochschulsektor analysiert. Seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre wurden neue Finanzierungssysteme nach und nach in den Bundesländern eingeführt, die zum Ziel hatten, die Performance und...

Evaluations of the Higher Education Sector are receiving increased attention, due to the rising expenditures and the absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question that has only partially been answered. This paper...

In research into higher education, the evaluation of completion and dropout rates has generated a steady stream of interest for decades. While most studies only calculate quotes using student and graduate numbers for both phenomena, we propose to also consider the budget available to...

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...

Despite measures on the European level to increase the compatibility between the HE sectors of the member states, the recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency term according to the two management levels each...