Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds … is found for the effect of gender and cohort. …

Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … in addition to GSOEP data, which allows estimating returns to tertiary education separately by subject of degree for the …, which is coherent with the relatively high returns to this group. One interesting finding is that each gender reaches the …

Prior to the introduction of mother tongue based education in 1994, the language of instruction for most subjects in … reading skills of birth cohorts that gained access to mother tongue-based primary education after 1994 improved significantly … by about 11 percentage points. The provision of primary education in mother tongue halved the reading skills gap between …

introduced in 2011. Additional investments into secondary education will, as a rule, not cause life time income to raise enough … to compensate its costs. -- Early education ; demographic change ; inequality over the life span ; redistributive policy …

. Independently of gender and skill level, the estimates affirm higher earnings to educational attainment in Germany. …

education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education … to education by 0.005 percentage points. This implies that higher skilled employees are better sheltered from labour … regional unemployment can in addition almost fully explain the observed large differences in regional returns to education. We …

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 … rather increasing and are higher than male ones in the public sector. Moreover, not all education degrees yield the same …

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born … sector, the returns to a further year of post-compulsory education fell from twelve per cent for the 1945-49 cohort to about … seven per cent for those born in the early 1970s. Cohort effects in men's returns to education are less obvious, but we do …