Student performance differs greatly across countries, but little is known about the role of teacher quality in explaining these differences. New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing...

This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. The study is based on a large representative German dataset, which includes IQ test scores and measures of personality (locus of control,...

In Germany and many other countries, students are tracked into various secondary school types. This paper studies whether parents or teachers assess students potential educational performance more adequately. Educational attainment is measured by grade retention rates. We take advantage of a...

This paper presents an analytical setup that makes predictions for the relationships between firm and occupation specific human capital and job switches. The predictions are then tested using the task based approach. The results, based on data for Germany, show that the degree to which firm...

Im Forschungsbericht werden die Ergebnisse eines Kolloquiums vorgestellt. Inhalt: Teil 1. (Steiner, Christine: Bildungs- und Berufswahlverhalten von Jugendlichen und Jungerwachsenen in Ostdeutschland. - Grünert, Holle: Was wissen wir über das Beschäftigerverhalten in Ostdeutschland? - Lutz,...