Browsing by Subject "Education"

Now showing 1 - 8 of 8
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Die Arbeitsmarktsituation formal Geringqualifizierter in Deutschland : Folgen, Ursachen und Politikimplikationen einer veränderten Nachfrage nach einfacher Arbeit
    (2015) Rukwid, Ralf; Hagemann, Harald
    This dissertation provides an elaborate discussion of the labour market situation of low-skilled workers in Germany. It starts with a precise description of the employment and wage effects for unskilled labour in the context of a skill-specific structural change and the tendency towards a knowledge-based economy. The analysis focuses on the current job and income opportunities of low-skilled workers as well as the historical developments. This is followed by an overview of the theoretical determinants of the specific labour market problems of unskilled workers and the main explanations for a long-term demand shift away from low-skilled labour (trade vs. technology). Finally, different political approaches for an improvement of the job prospects of less-qualified persons in Germany are presented and evaluated. The focus here is on one hand on various strategies for enhancing flexibility of the German wage structure and on the other hand on a further expansion and improvement of the system of education and vocational training.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Bildung und Forschung im Kontext der digitalen und ökologischen Transformation des Agrarbereichs im Banat und Baden-Württemberg - auf dem Weg zu Ressourceneffizienz und Resilienz
    (2023) Weinmann, Markus; Landtag und Staatsministerium Baden-Württemberg , Universität für Lebenswissenschaften " König Michael I " in Timisoara; Raupp, Manfred G.; Ludewig, Uwe; Flad, Angelika
    The Banat Green Deal project "GreenERDE" (Education and Research in the context of the digital and ecological transformation of agriculture in the Banat Region and Baden-Württemberg - towards resource efficiency and resilience) aimed to strengthen the the competitiveness of the agricultural sector in the Romanian Banat, Baden-Württemberg and neighboring regions with innovative technical and at the same time socio-cultural connect interesting content. The advanced training program “Farming in Responsibility for Our Common World” carried out as part of this project aims at the transfer of knowledge and experience among farmers and other interested persons. Current and future challenges, such as ecological conversion and the digital transformation of agricultural production, but also social, economic and cultural aspects were addressed. Innovative and relevant knowledge from practice, research or development projects throughout Europe and other continents is presented.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Children’s health, human capital accumulation, and R&D-based economic growth
    (2017) Baldanzi, Annarita; Bucci, Alberto; Prettner, Klaus
    We analyze the effects of childrens health on human capital accumulation and on long-run economic growth. For this purpose we design an R&D-based growth model in which the stock of human capital of the next generation is determined by parental education and health investments. We show that i) there is a complementarity between education and health: if parents want to have better educated children, they also raise health investments and vice versa; ii) parental health investments exert an unambiguously positive effect on long-run economic growth, iii) faster population growth reduces long-run economic growth. These results are consistent with the empirical evidence for modern economies in the twentieth century.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Didaktischer Ansatz für das Blended Learning: Konzeption und Anwendung von Educational Patterns
    (2005) Köhne, Sandra; Krcmar, Helmut
    The dissertation ?Educational approach for blended learning: Conception and implementation of educational patterns? describes the design of blended learning by educational patterns. Blended learning mixes different kinds of teaching and learning with and without using technology. Typically it is understood as a combination of teaching face to face or online. However the mix also includes media, social arrangements and teaching methods to optimise the course arrangement. As the educational arrangement of blended learning courses is not properly researched so far, this dissertation uses patterns for course design. In architecture and software engineering design patterns are already used. Patterns allow novices to transfer a problem-solution-pair of a successful expert to their own problems. Therefore this dissertation analyses educational approaches of face to face courses and first implementations of blended learning to integrate their ideas in the pattern concept. That way, 24 Patterns are created which are designed by a consistent scheme composed of name, solution, forces an consequences. The patterns can be categorised in patterns for analysing the terms and conditions, for designing a framework of a course and for designing the course itself. This allows a user to choose from a category in accordance to his design requirements. A course designer needs to analyse the terms and conditions to get an idea of the situation where learning and teaching takes place. The patterns for designing a framework of a course include the aspects that are not related to the specific course itself. It starts with the decision for the subject of the course and leads to an approximate course design. If the course is innovative or complex it might be necessary to plan an manage a project or to involve the people who are concerned by the course. Planning the test of the designed course finalises the framework, because it helps to draw conclusions from the planning of a course. In order to emphasise the blended learning part of the course its design starts with the phases of a learning process which consist of online lessons, face to face learning and distance learning. This helps to make decisions for other ingredients of the blended learning mix. A procedure for choosing and using these patterns is described for first time users. The developed patterns are tested and evaluated in a blended learning course for governmental employees. This dissertation answers the following questions: To what extend can existing educational models and methods be used for blended learning? ? What do patterns for blended learning look like? ? Is it possible to implement representative patterns in a blended learning course for governmental employees? ? and ? What can be concluded from the implementation of the patterns in a module of information management.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Knowledge-based and generative-AI-driven pedagogical conversational agents: A comparative study of grice’s cooperative principles and trust
    (2023) Wölfel, Matthias; Shirzad, Mehrnoush Barani; Reich, Andreas; Anderer, Katharina
    The emergence of generative language models (GLMs), such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, is changing the way we communicate with computers and has a major impact on the educational landscape. While GLMs have great potential to support education, their use is not unproblematic, as they suffer from hallucinations and misinformation. In this paper, we investigate how a very limited amount of domain-specific data, from lecture slides and transcripts, can be used to build knowledge-based and generative educational chatbots. We found that knowledge-based chatbots allow full control over the system’s response but lack the verbosity and flexibility of GLMs. The answers provided by GLMs are more trustworthy and offer greater flexibility, but their correctness cannot be guaranteed. Adapting GLMs to domain-specific data trades flexibility for correctness.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Non-financial hurdles for human capital accumulation : landownership in Korea under Japanese rule
    (2014) Kim, Tai-Yoo; Jun, Bogang
    This paper suggests that inequality in landownership is a nonfinancial hurdle for human capital accumulation. It is the first to present evidence that inequality in landownership had an adverse effect on the level of public education in the Korean colonial period. Using a fixed effects model, the present research exploits variations in inequality in land concentration across regions in Korea and accounts for the unobserved heterogeneity across these regions. The analysis establishes a highly significant adverse effect of Land inequality on education in the Korean colonial period.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    The size of the middle class and educational outcomes : theory and evidence from the Indian subcontinent
    (2018) Seiffert, Sebastian; Prettner, Klaus
    This paper proposes a stylised model to derive the effect of a sizeable middle class on average educational outcomes. Under reasonable assumptions, the model predicts that the spending share on education increases if the middle class becomes larger such that the size of the middle class has a positive impact on education. We test the relationship empirically by using village/neighbourhood level data from Indian household surveys. To tackle the issue of potential endogeneity of the middle class share of the population, we propose a novel instrument that relies on the fraction of the population belonging to the third (middle) caste (“sudra”). Using this IV strategy, our empirical results support a positive effect of a larger middle class on educational outcomes. Furthermore, we show that the share of the middle class is a more important determinant of female education than male education and that the effect of the middle class on education is more pronounced in rural areas.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Publication
    Three essays in empirical economics
    (2019) Seiffert, Sebastian Daniel; Beißinger, Thomas
    In the preface of one of the most established textbooks "Economics" by Samuelson and Nordhaus (1998), the authors state that the ultimate goal of economics is to improve the living conditions of people in their everyday life". In this spirit, the underlying thesis empirically assesses three heterogenous topics which all can be linked via their impact on (economic) well-being. It contributes to the scientific landscape by tackling the questions at hand utilising novel and newly constructed data sets which have not been commonly used in economic research. The thesis comprises three chapters which will be summarised in the following. Gun Violence in the US: Correlates and Causes This chapter provides a county-level investigation of the economically-motivated gun violence in the US. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model which suggests that firearm-related robberies in a given county increase with the number of illegal guns and decrease with social capital and police intensity. Using detailed FBI data from 1986-2014, we find empirical evidence for the role of illegal guns, social capital, and police intensity in line with our theoretical predictions. To investigate the causal effect of illegal guns, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in illegal firearm supplies due to gun thefts in contiguous states. The Size of the Middle Class and Educational Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the Indian Subcontinent This chapter proposes a stylised model to derive the effect of a sizeable middle class on average educational outcomes. Under the reasonable assumptions, the model predicts that the spending share on education increases if the middle class becomes larger such that the size of the middle class has a positive impact on education. We test the relationship empirically by using village/neighbourhood level data from Indian household surveys. To tackle the the issue of potential endogeneity of the middle class share of the population, we propose a novel instrument that relies on the fraction of the population belonging to the third (middle) caste ("sudra"). Using this IV strategy, our empirical results support a positive effect. Go East: On the Impact of the Transsiberian Railway on Economic Development in Eastern Russia This chapter addresses the question whether or not large-scale infrastructure investments have a causal effect of local economic development. By using a novel instrumental variable approach based on historical trade and travel routes across the Russian East, I am able to identify a causal and negative effect of remoteness to the Transsiberian Railway on local economic activity as measured by nocturnal lights emission.