training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the … opportunity cost of education and prevent further skill accumulation. On the other hand, they lower the employment probability of … workers declines which lowers the opportunity cost of education. High requirements with regard to professional skills …

differences in demographic, human capital, and occupational characteristics—in particular, education level, work experience, job … amounts to 2.7% lower wages for ethnic minority (vs. ethnic majority) employees, indicating potential wage discrimination …

gender when these choices are taken. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that teacher gender matters in this regard, and … boys when having a same-sex teacher in this subject in grade 10, teacher gender matters only for girls with respect to …

-by university opening, closing the local gender gap in university education by about 72%. Third, I provide evidence that local … education that has been documented for developed countries in the latter half of the 20th century. It uses the foundation of new … how women's mobility and education decisions interact. I first document women's low regional mobility in post-war West …

. -- Higher education ; university choice ; college admission ; conditional logit …

The German system of higher education has witnessed considerable change in the first decade of the 21st century …. Enabled by the 1998 amendment of the German Framework Act for Higher Education, higher education institutions have introduced … Constitutional Court in 2005, some German states introduced tuition fees at their public higher education institutions – which, after …

effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate … Economics Departure of the University of Munich in December 2012. The thesis consists of four core chapters, each evaluating the …