France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … been on continuous decline in Germany for many years, hardly affected by the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the …

Curriculum tracking creates incentives in the years before its start, and we should therefore expect test scores to be … be endogenous with respect to later-age policies, and add to a growing literature on incentives in education. …

This paper provides precise figures on the incidence and wage penalties of mismatching in Germany. We use the BIBB … characteristics. We also examine wage penalties for mismatching in Germany, considering a large number of controls for workers and, in … results indicate that large shares of over- or under-educated workers in Germany have skills that correspond to the skill …

, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and Denmark come next. These countries all provide a rich base of compelling …

We analyze the short-run impact of the introduction of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany on further training at …

In view of the cross-sectoral shortage of skilled workers in Germany, the structural deficits and dysfunctionalities in …