Im Rahmen der BMBF-Initiative "Anrechnung beruflicher Kompetenzen auf Hochschulstudiengänge" (ANKOM) stellen zehn Pilothochschulen ihre umfangreichen Arbeiten und Ergebnisse vor. Der Sammelband "Die Entwicklung von Anrechnungsmodellen. Zu Äquivalenzpotenzialen von beruflicher und...

This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics and expanded higher education to all regions. The reform created exogenous...

I examine the relationship between university prestige and socioeconomic achievement in Japan. I generate a set of hypotheses based on human capital and screening models of education, and test these using a 1995 cross-sectional dataset. I find that university prestige significantly improves...