This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using microeconometric methods. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. Chapter 2 uses a randomised field experiment among German human resource managers to evaluate which skill signals such as...

Löhne und gesetzliche Rentenansprüche sind über das Sozialversicherungssystem direkt miteinander verbunden. In dieser Dissertationsschrift werden zunächst Lohnrisiken analysiert, um dann das Altersarmutsrisiko in Deutschland aufzuzeigen. Nach einer Einführung werden in Kapitel 2 die...

The dissertation aims to analyse the wage gaps between native workers and immigrants in the United States in the period of 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. The methodology used are Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The results found that immigrants earn less...