"The expansion of all-day schools is currently enjoying a high priority in the political agenda. One of the reasons for this is the poor results of German pupils in the PISA study. This paper is to examine what effect the expansion of all-day schools will have on the labour force participation...

Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, die wesentlichen bildungspolitischen Erfahrungen der letzten Jahrzehnte in Frankreich darzustellen und im Hinblick auf die bildungspolitische Debatte in Deutschland zu bewerten. Die allgemeinen Ziele der Bildungspolitik, z. B. die Anhebung des Bildungsniveaus, die...

Ziel dieses Artikels ist es, die wesentlichen bildungspolitischen Erfahrungen der letzten Jahrzehnte in Frankreich darzustellen und im Hinblick auf die bildungspolitische Debatte in Deutschland zu bewerten. Die allgemeinen Ziele der Bildungspolitik, z. B. die Anhebung des Bildungsniveaus, die...

This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behavior. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....

We exploit the cross-country and time variation in the demographics and education structure in 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size has a negative and statistically significant effect...

We analyse the relationship between family background and children's educational attainment in the 1990s in Poland. If parental poverty affects children's educational prospects, the increase in social inequalities observed in the Polish transition process will be transmitted between generations....

DThis paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion, taking gender-specific sample selectivity into account. The...