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

Child care and education are important inputs in the human capital production function. The research of Nobel prize … inputs, in short: skill begets skill. Therefore, it is crucial for a society to know how the public education system can … on the effects of some important aspects of education policies. It comprises an introduction and four core chapters which …

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 …

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 …

to the year 2009. The analysis focuses on their participation in various modes of adult education and their long …-term labour market outcomes. Employees in declining occupations are found to have participated only moderately in adult education …. The result is the same also when adult education is split into four main modes, and into shorter and longer time horizons …