It has become part of the conventional wisdom in the economics of education that subsidies to higher education have a regressive distributional effect. Given that relatively more children from wealthier families enroll in higher education, many economist assume that these subsidies to higher...

The paper suggests that international differences in educational institutions explain the large international differences in student performance in cognitive achievement tests. A microeconometric student-level estimation based on data for more than 260,000 students from 39 countries reveals that...

Bildung und Wissenschaft sind auch ein Wirtschaftsfaktor. Die regionalwirtschaftliche Bedeutung dieses Wirtschaftsfaktors läßt sich anhand der Nachfrage-, Produktivitäts- und Standorteffekte der Sach- und Personalausgaben für die Hochschulbildungs- und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen empirisch...

Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential reason for the different structure of unemployment relates...