[ger] Schätzung von Gewinnen mittels Paneldaten: Endogenität des Humankapitals und Effekte der Selektion, . von Yves Guillotin und Patrick Sevestre.. . In diesem Artikel sollen zwei der Schwierigkeiten analysiert werden, die auftreten, wenn man empirische Tests von Gewinnfunktionen mittels...

The aim of this article is to propose a new database allowing a comparative evaluation of the relative performance of schooling systems around the world. We measure this performance through pupils' achievement in standardized tests. We merge all existing regional and international student...

In this paper, we critically assess the contribution of Field (2007) in this issue. The author casts some doubts concerning the exceptionality of the 20th century as experiencing 'growth in the era of knowledge based progress', using new quantitative evidence on the TFP growth on the period...

Aggregate wage earnings are one of the key variables of the German economy. Paradoxically, it is also a little known variable, especially in the long term. Historians have never devoted a synthesis to the subject and, among all the economists who have centred their work on the study of economic...