Changing labour market demand and moving up the global value chain requires high-skilled workers. However, the share of adults with high skill levels in the Slovak Republic is one of the lowest in the OECD. Improving the education system would raise quality and better align students’ skills...

Die hier im Rahmen eines vom BMBF finanzierten Vorhabens erstellte Dokumentation hat das Ziel, vergleichend darzustellen, was in anderen Ländern getan wird, um die akademische Mobilität nicht nur zu fördern, sondern sie zu einem Bestandteil des Studiums zu machen. Dabei konnte es nicht die...

This paper uses a new measure of human capital that works much better in explaining productivity in OECD countries compared to earlier measures of human capital to investigate the educational policy drivers of human capital. A novel methodology is utilised by interacting educational policies,...