Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades … GSOEP, we find that both approaches produce estimates of average returns to education that decrease until the late 1990s and … increase significantly afterwards. In the observation period, the gender gap in returns to education seems to vanish …