Distributional effects of the high school degree in Germany.

Autor/inn/en	Gernandt, Johannes; Maier, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rat-Wirtzler, Julie
Institution	Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung; Universität Konstanz / Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Titel	Distributional effects of the high school degree in Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Verteilungseffekte des Abiturs in Deutschland.
Quelle	Mannheim (2007), 20 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Diskussionspapiere / DFG-Forschergruppe "Heterogene Arbeit: positive und normative Aspekte der Qualifikationsstruktur der Arbeit". 07/06
Beigaben	Tabellen 5; grafische Darstellungen 5
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
URN	urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-28202
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsertrag; Abitur; Bildungsabschluss; Einkommensunterschied; Einkommen; Einkommenseffekt; Einkommensverteilung; Lohn; Deutschland
Abstract	"This paper investigates the impact of a high school degree on the wage distribution in the period from 1984 to 2004 in Germany. In that period the share of male workers with a high school degree increased from 16 to 25 percent. An econometric evaluation estimator is used to analyze quantile treatment effects for the whole population of male workers and for the subpopulation of workers with a high school degree. It turns out that the impact of a high school degree on the wage distribution for all workers is positive, whereas its impact on the wage distribution of the workers with a high school degree does statistically not differ from zero. This suggests that the selection of students into grammar schools might have been too restrictive. For more workers higher education would have raised their productivity and wages." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/2