Stefan C. Wolter

Research Fellow

University of Bern

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Research Interests

Stefan Wolter is Managing Director of the Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education and a Professor of Economics at the University of Bern, where he heads the Centre for Research in Economics of Education. Among others he is also Vice President of the Governing Board of the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and Member of the Education Policy Committee of the OECD in Paris. His main research interests are labour economics and economics of education. Together with Prof. U. Backes-Gellner (University of Zurich) he is co-director of the Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education (www.leadinghouse.ch).

Among others he has published in American Economic Review (P&P), Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Public Economics, Economica, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Labour Economics and Economics of Education Review. He is Editor-in-Chief of "Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training" (ERVET).

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2000.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5587
Monopsony Power, Pay Structure and Training
Samuel Mühlemann, Paul Ryan, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1095-1112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5474
The Consequences of Being Different: Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
Barbara Mueller, Stefan C. Wolter
published as 'The Role of Hard-to-Obtain Information on Ability for the School-to-Work Transition' in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46(4), 1447-1471
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5431
Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Guido Schwerdt, Dolores Messer, Ludger Woessmann, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (7-8), 569-583
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4460
Apprenticeship Training and the Business Cycle
Samuel Mühlemann, Stefan C. Wolter, Adrian Wüest
published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2009, 1(2), 173-186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4069
Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?
Jürg Schweri, Joop Hartog, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (2), 215-227
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4017
Money Matters: Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment with Vouchers for Adult Training
Dolores Messer, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3505
Self-Selection into Teaching: The Role of Teacher Education Institutions
Stefan Denzler, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Cambridge Journal of Education, 2009, 39(4), 423-441
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3465
Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training: A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland
Regina Dionisius, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Günter Walden, Felix Wenzelmann, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55(1), 7-36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3323
What Happened to the PISA 2000 Participants Five Years Later?
Kathrin Bertschy, Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Stefan C. Wolter
published as 'PISA and the Transition into the Labour Market' in: Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 111 - 137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2787
Time-to-Degree and the Business Cycle
Dolores Messer, Stefan C. Wolter
revised version published in: Education Economics, 2010, 18(1), 111-123
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