Public education spending in the German Länder: adjustment to demographic shocks, politics, and cost efficiency

In this dissertation, I examine three major aspects of Germany's education system from an empirical public finance perspective. First, I analyse the effects of strong demographic shifts by considering how the East German Länder responded to the rather dramatic decline in the number of students...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kempkes, Gerhard
Other Authors: Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden 2010
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Online Access:http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-26563
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-26563
http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/2656/Diss-KEMPKES-Jan2010.pdf