Mit den vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels zunehmenden Lücken am Arbeitsmarkt und den sich verändernden Anforderungen an die Beschäftigten im Kontext von Digitalisierung, Dekarbonisierung und De-Globalisierung wird es in Deutschland und Europa immer wichtiger, dass die...

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...

Operational Programme Digital Poland - "Priority axis III: Digital competences of the society" focuses on raising digital activity in order to allow fully use possibilities of high-speed Internet and new public e-services. It comprises four actions including Training activities for development...

This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using microeconometric methods. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. Chapter 2 uses a randomised field experiment among German human resource managers to evaluate which skill signals such as...

Gutachten im Auftrag der Handwerkskammer Dresden. Das Projekt widmet sich der Fragestellung, wie sich die Berufsschullandschaft im Kammerbezirk Dresden nachfragegerecht an die demographischen Herausforderungen anpassen lässt. Dabei stehen die Wirtschaftlichkeit der Einrichtungen und die...

The aim of the thesis is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between education, skills and labor-market outcomes. Based on high-quality skill data from the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills, Chapter 2 studies the effect of schooling on cognitive skills, exploiting the staggered...

The dataset RWI-UNI-SUBJECTS provides comprehensive information on the universe of academic subjects offered by the universe of higher education institutions across Germany between 1971 and 1996. RWI-UNI-SUBJECTS is based on tables extracted from paper-based guides on "Study and Career Choice''...

In den letzten Jahren wurden die Ganztagsangebote an den weiterführenden Schulen stark aus-gebaut. Lag der Anteil der Ganztagsschüler in der Sekundarstufe 1 im Schuljahr 2003/2004 noch bei nur 12,3 Prozent, war er im Schuljahr 2008/2009 mit 26,0 Prozent bereits mehr als doppelt und im...

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes...