Methodisch wird bei der Untersuchung über Studiengebühren und ihre sozialen Auswirkungen das Konzept der Rechtsökonomik, eines Forschungszweigs der Institutionenökonomik zugrunde gelegt. Im Grundsatz wird vom methodologischen Individualismus ausgegangen. Das Systemverhalten wird auf die...

We extract estimation results on the Mincer earnings function from four earlier studies and add new results from a recent dataset. We analyse differences related to differences in earnings concepts, in sampling frame and differences among studies that cannot be explained. Jointly, the studies...

This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training.The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration theworkers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some randomevent. The point estimate of the return to...

This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted to participate in training but did not do so because of some random event. The point estimate of the return to...