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 …. However, the estimates proved rather robust towards the specification of the wage equation and the estimation method. …

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born … possibly also age effects in the returns. For women, we find a large and robust decline in schooling premia: in the private … sector, the returns to a further year of post-compulsory education fell from twelve per cent for the 1945-49 cohort to about …

Deutschland geschätzten Bildungsrenditen mit den für die anderen Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union berechneten …

wives would increase substantially in west Germany, while a significant number of husbands would drop out of the labor force. …

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born … possibly also age effects in the returns. For women, we find a large and robust decline in schooling premia: in the private … sector, the returns to a further year of post-compulsory education fell from twelve per cent for the 1945-49 cohort to about …

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 …. However, the estimates proved rather robust towards the specification of the wage equation and the estimation method. …

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born … possibly also age effects in the returns. For women, we find a large and robust decline in schooling premia: in the private … sector, the returns to a further year of post-compulsory education fell from twelve per cent for the 1945-49 cohort to about …