English summary: This series, edited by the Ottobeuren Seminar on Economics, publishes those papers which are given at the seminars in Ottobeuren. The purpose of these seminars is to present new theoretical approaches as well as new empirical findings to a group of experts and to discuss the political-economic conclusions with them. This volume contains the papers and supplementary papers given at the 33rd Seminar on Economics on the subject of education from September 14 - 17, 2003. In them, the authors deal with current ...
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English summary: This series, edited by the Ottobeuren Seminar on Economics, publishes those papers which are given at the seminars in Ottobeuren. The purpose of these seminars is to present new theoretical approaches as well as new empirical findings to a group of experts and to discuss the political-economic conclusions with them. This volume contains the papers and supplementary papers given at the 33rd Seminar on Economics on the subject of education from September 14 - 17, 2003. In them, the authors deal with current issues pertaining to education and economics, such as for example the determination and the assessment of the return on education, the influence of education qualifications on innovations, productivity growth, unemployment and distribution of income as well as specific problems related to policies regarding university education. German description: Das Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Seminar Ottobeuren ist eine traditionsreiche Institution fur wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Forschung. In jedem Jahr trifft sich ein kleiner Kreis ausgewiesener Experten eines speziellen Forschungsgebietes zu einem Symposium in Ottobeuren. Das jeweils gewahlte Thema wird von mehreren Seiten beleuchtet: Neue theoretische Ansatze werden diskutiert, neue empirische Befunde vorgestellt und wirtschaftspolitische Schlussfolgerungen erortert.In diesem Tagungsband werden die Referate und Korreferate des 33. Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Seminars vom 14. - 17. September 2003 zum Thema eBildung' veroffentlicht. Diskutiert werden aktuelle bildungsokonomische Fragen wie die Bestimmung und Abschatzung der Bildungsrendite, der Einfluss von Ausbildungsqualifikation auf Innovation, Produktivitatswachstum, Arbeitslosigkeit und Einkommensverteilung sowie spezifische hochschulpolitische Probleme.
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