Ein klarer Fachkräftemangel behindert das Wachstum der Informationstechnik (IT)-Branche nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern auch in anderen Ländern. In dieser Studie wird untersucht, in welchem Ausmaß Schulabgänger mit einem Studium der Informatik in fünf industrialisierten Ländern, den USA,...

The paper presents evidence of serious skill shortages in the information technology (IT) sector and in ITrelated occupations in France, Germany, Singapore the UK and the US. The extent to which higher education (HE) has responded to the increased demand for skills by providing an increasing...

Using a large and novel administrative dataset, this paper investigates variation in returnsto different higher education ‘degrees’ (subject-institution combinations) in the United King-dom. Conditioning on a rich set background characteristics, it finds substantial variation inreturns, even...