Der im Jahr 1999 initiierte Bologna-Prozess sollte ein entscheidender Schritt zur Konstituierung eines europäischen Hochschulraumes sein. Ist die Reform gescheitert? Annette Schavan, Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung, betont, dass der Bologna-Prozess viele wichtige Veränderungen an...

We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion rates from the level of the state with the lowest...

Using a specific micro-dataset with information on working histories, we analyse the labour market entry of Spanish youths who have completed vocational education. According to the education system, young people can enter the labour market with vocational high school (upper secondary education)...

This paper proposes and estimates a model of demand for and supply of graduations in tertiary education, which is then used to construct forward-looking scenarios for graduation rates by country. Consistent with evidence that economic returns to education have remained high in spite of rising...