In 2008, school catchment areas were abolished in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the most populous German federal state. Critics have argued that free school choice will lead to increased segregation and educational disparities. The data used is from Wuppertal, a major city in NRW. Since the...

Die Bildungspolitik eines Landes folgt in der Regel keinem wohldefinierten Optimierungsprozeß. Wertvorstellungen, Vorurteile und Ideologien der jeweiligen Entscheidungsträger sowie historische Entwicklungen und institutionelle Vorgaben bedingen die bildungspolitischen Entschlüsse. Angesichts...

Zusammenfassung In diesem Beitrag wird der Einfluß der Struktur kollektiver Lohnverhandlungen auf ausfließende Direktinvestitionen analysiert. Verwendet werden Daten von 19 OECD-Ländern für die Jahre 1980, 1990 und 1994. Der Zentralisations- und der Koordinationsgrad der Lohnverhandlungen...

In this paper, we use data from the German PISA 2003 sample to study the effects of central exit examinations on student performance and student attitudes. Unlike earlier studies we use (i) a value-added measure to pin down the effect of central exit exams on learning in the last year before the...

This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to estimate the causal effect of central exit examinations on student performance. We propose a difference-in-differences framework that exploits the quasi-experimental nature of...

A regulated labor market and a centralized system of collective bargaining are often blamed for a low level of inflowing and a high level of outflowing foreign direct investments. It is argued that central wage agreements are too inflexible to react to firm specific aspects and hence foster the...

A small open economy’s optimal environmental policy is studied in a model with international capital mobility and local pollution. The country produces traded as well as non-traded goods. Is it in the country’s interest to engage in ecological dumping by choosing generous pollution...