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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk measures are unfettered by heterogeneity which handicapped the use of actual market wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825129
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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?
Schweri, Jürg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: Economics of education review 30 (2011) 2, pp. 215-227
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009297307
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Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It?
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The number of university students participating in exchange programs has risen sharply over the last decade, but a survey of Swiss university graduates (class of 1999 and 2001) shows that participation in student exchange programs significantly prolongs the period of time spent studying at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822608
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Labor Market Effects of Adult Education Vouchers: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger; Wolter, Stefan C.; … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2013
education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011148698
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Individual policy preferences for vocational versus academic education: Microlevel evidence for the case of Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Busemeyer, Marius R.; Cattaneo, … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
This paper uses an original dataset from a survey conducted in Switzerland in 2007 to explore the dynamics of education … investment in education both from public and private sources. With regard to the former, the findings suggest that individual … matters much more than other variables. Proponents of the left demand more investment both from the state as well as from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358884
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The impact of an adult education voucher program: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - In: Journal of Public Economics 96 (2012) 7-8, pp. 569-583
education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of the voucher program on earnings, employment, and subsequent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608533
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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - CESifo - 2011
education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833939
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A structural model of demand for apprentices
Muehlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Juerg; Winkelmann, Rainer; … - 2005
It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that … using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed, however, that for 60 percent of the firms, the apprenticeship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261148
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Demographic change and public education spending : a conflict between young and old?
Grob, Ueli; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2005
Demographic change in industrial countries will influence educational spending in potentially two ways. On the one hand, the decline in the number of school-age children should alleviate the financial pressure. On the other hand, the theoretical/empirical literature has established that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261342
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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - 2003
In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for … to the fact that teachers? salaries are generally high in Switzerland - teachers here enjoy a positive wage differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261950