The paper shows an empirical analysis of regional returns to education in Germany. Therefore the returns to education are estimated for Germany as a whole and for the eastern and western part seperately. Additionally the analysis examines the returns for each federal state. For the estimations...

Estimating a return to education für Germany as a whole gives one return on human capital on average. This article extends the existing literature using a regional perspective. On a federal-state-level the regional returns are estimable. Therefore the dataset is separated due to regional...

Summary The paper shows an empirical analysis of regional returns to education in Germany. Therefore the returns to education are estimated for Germany as a whole and for the eastern and western part seperately. Additionally the analysis examines the returns for each federal state. For the...