It is obvious that the German economy exhibits a significant decline in economic growth during the last two decades. Although the German economy has still to overcome the burden of the reunification in 1990 it is shown that this burden might be only one reason of this decline. In this study we...

This chapter provides new evidence on educational inequality and reviews the literature on the causes and consequences of unequal education. We document large achievement gaps between children from different socio-economic backgrounds, show how patterns of educational inequality vary across...

Das Buch analysiert das amerikanische und deutsche Hochschulsystem mit seinen Rahmenbedingungen und Wirkungen. Zunächst wird die Organisation des mehr marktlich orientierten Hochschulsystems der USA und des staatliche administrierten Hochschulsystems in Deutschland dargestellt und untersucht....