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SoSe 20: Returns to education in Western Societies

Claudia Finger, Laura Menze

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Important: This course will take place as an Online-Course. It will be taught using both synchronous and asynchronous teaching formats.
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Kommentar

Education is strongly related to benefits on the labor market and in other life domains. However, returns to education differ markedly between national contexts as well as within societies (e.g., by gender or social origin. The seminar addresses questions such as: Why is education rewarded on the labor market? Which institutional set ups are associates with higher/lower returns to education? Are returns to education, for instance lower for women and individuals from lower social classes? To that end, we will discuss different sociological and economic theories on the link between education and labor market placement as well as empirical studies covering both between- and within-country variation in returns to education in European and North-American countries. While the focus of the seminar lies on returns to education on the labor market, we will also touch on further return dimensions such as health or civic engagement. Schließen