Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit Selektivität beim Zugang in Maßnahmen beruflicher Weiterbildung. Im Rahmen der "Initiative zur Flankierung des Strukturwandels" (IFlaS) fördert die Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen für gering qualifizierte Arbeitslose. Damit soll den...

This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for West-German...

This paper explains the main features of an innovative linked employer-employee data set with a particular focus on continuous training in Germany, called WeLL. The data set comprises establishment data that can be linked to longitudinal information on the associated employees. The employer...

Öffentlich geförderte sozialversicherungspflichtige Beschäftigung ist eine arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahme insbesondere für Langzeitarbeitslose ohne realistische Aussicht auf Integration in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt. Der hier vorgelegte Forschungsbericht enthält die Ergebnisse einer...

The ultimate aim of opinion surveys is the provision of information on the distribution of preferences and perceptions at the individual level. Yet, eliciting this information from the data is typically difficult. This paper uses a structural model to explain the answers on a set of questions...

Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this...

Based on the individual-level data of the PISA 2000 study, this note provides a detailed econometric analysis of the way that reading test scores are associated with individual and family background information and with characteristics of the school and class of the 15 to 16 year old respondents...

Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the reduction of unemployment. Yet, high unemployment has universally been a persistent problem throughout the last two...