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 …

According to the higher education laws of the Federal states, continuing academic education is one of the core tasks of … between the first degree courses and continuing education courses. No fees are charged for the first degree course, but … additional costs must be charged for continuing education courses. As a result, initial study phases are extended by the direct …

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 …

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 …

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

This brief provides descriptive evidence on completion of multiple higher education degrees in Finland. In the year … 2020, there were altogether 7,100 individuals enrolling in higher education who already had higher education degrees. A … quarter of them already had more than one higher education degree. The share of those with prior degrees participating in …

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