Nach langen Jahren der Abstinenz in der Politikberatung ist seit einiger Zeit ein deutlicher Wiederanstieg des 'politischen Kurswertes' der Bildungsökonomie zu verzeichnen. Unübersehbar ist die Tendenz, ihr eine wichtigere Politik unterstützende Rolle zuzuweisen. Die verschärften...

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...

Die vorliegende Veröffentlichung soll einen Überblick über die Ziele, Funktionen, theoretischen Strukturierungsansätze, Instrumente & Grenzen des Bildungscontrolling geben. Dieses stellt eine Querschnittsfunktion des Personalmanagements dar, die pädagogische und ökonomische Überlegungen...

I develop an agent-based computational economics (ACE) model with which I evaluate the aggregate impact of labor market policies. The findings are that governmentfinanced training measures increase the outflow rate from unemployment to employment. Although the overall effect is positive this...

This paper develops a theoretical analysis of training regimes as outcomes of a complementarity between organizational and institutional factors that determine firms' and workers' incentives as regards skills. Specifically, the paper proposes that, on the one hand, knowledge embeddedness within...

Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs. We find that both programs reduce the chances of finding...

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...