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 …

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 …

whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the incidence of social security contributions and taxes also hold up within … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive short-run employment effect of a revenue …

Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … level of long-term unemployment in Germany relative to the United States? …

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …