PresentationVincent Koen | OECD Economics DepartmentCommentRobert Kappel | GIGA - German Institute of Global and Area Studies Chair Heino v. Meyer | OECD Berlin Centre The OECD's 2013 Economic Survey of China analyses the challenges faced by the new leadership in Beijing and sets out recommendations to foster more inclusive and greener urbanisation and growth. Vincent Koen, one of the report...
In recent years the economic literature has begun to study non-cognitive skills in addition to cognitive skills in order to determine school or labor market success. Non-cognitive skills is a generic term enfolding traits that enable a person to communicate or interact with others, such as personality traits, socio-emotional behavior, locus of control, persistence, or motivation. Examining non-cognitive ...
The topic of this dissertation is cultural integration in general, and, in particular, intermarriage as one indicator of social proximity. In the first chapter several aspects of cultural integration of immigrants in Germany are considered, with cultural proximity measured as the distance between immigrants and natives with respect to those indicators. The analysis not only describes the status quo ...
This thesis analyzes the determinants of university enrollment and successful completion of university studies. The main questions analyzed are: What are the enrollment effects of different tuition fee schemes? How does taxation of future earnings affect enrollment? What is the impact of student aid on the success of studies? To answer the first two questions, I develop a structural university enrollment ...
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