This study applies to German data a model in which the decision to attend higher education depends on the ratio of marginal cost and marginal return expected from higher education. If this ratio is below a certain threshold, the individual will choose to participate in higher education. In a...

"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...

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 of...

We exploit the cross?country and time variation in the demographics and education structure of 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...

This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable wage differential in favour of men and its reduction since the mid-eighties among West German full-time employees in the private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the...

Der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen genießt derzeit – u.a. auf Grund des schlechten Abschneidens deutscher Schüler bei der PISA-Studie – hohe Priorität in der politischen Agenda. In diesem Beitrag soll untersucht werden, wie sich der Ausbau von Ganztagsschulen auf die Erwerbsbeteiligung von...

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 - wie z.B. die Anhebung des Bildungsniveaus,...

This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany, relying on a theoretical model imbedded in the human capital theory. In a second step, the educational process is decomposed into school and post-school achievement. The same...