This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …

The aim of the thesis is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between education, skills and labor … university education. Chapter 5 analyzes data from the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills to compare employment probabilities over the … working-life cycle for individuals with vocational and general education. An initial employment advantage of vocational …

effect of a policy reform. Chapters 2 to 4 provide a contribution to the literature on economics of education and investigate …

This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …

The organization of the Prussian school system still affects the German education system of today. Against the … background of end-of-nineteenth-Prussia this thesis analyzes how education funding emerges in a federal system and how it affects …

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo … Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes three empirical studies, each of which evaluates one distinct education …), opening of new universities in regions without local tertiary education supply to raise tertiary education attainment by the …