This study was prepared by Gabriela Schütz while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2008 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The topic of this study is an econometric analysis...

Educational opportunities determine the intergenerational mobility of human capital and are affected by institutional features of schooling systems. The aim of this paper is twofold. It intends to show how strongly student performance depends on student background at two important stages in a...

Eine wirksame Strategie zur Steigerung von Bildungschancen und zur Verminderung von sozialer Segregation erfordert integrierte Handlungskonzepte, die eine enge Verknüpfung von Bildungseinrichtungen mit ihrem sozialen und räumlichen Umfeld herstellen. Die Ausweitung von Ganztagsschulen bietet...

Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of that system are (a) firm-based training programs accompanied by a schoolbased component (of one to two days per week), in which apprentices acquire upper secondary general...