Stefan C. Wolter

Research Fellow

University of Bern

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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 member 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 and Chair of the OECD expert group on Vocational Education and Training. 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 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 Discussion Paper No. 11374
Are Apprenticeships Business Cycle Proof?
Samuel Lüthi, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11349
Are They Coming Back? The Mobility of University Students in Switzerland after Graduation
Chantal Oggenfuss, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11217
The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education
Stefan C. Wolter, Maria Zumbühl
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11081
So Similar and Yet So Different: A Comparative Analysis of a Firm's Cost and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training in Austria and Switzerland
Luca Moretti, Martin Mayerl, Samuel Mühlemann, Peter Schlögl, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10976
Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices along the Whole Ability Distribution
Thomas Buser, Noemi Peter, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10191
Lost in Transition: The Influence of Locus of Control on Delaying Educational Decisions
Katharina Jaik, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9797
The More, the Better? The Impact of Instructional Time on Student Performance
Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Chantal Oggenfuss, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25(5), 433-445
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9646
Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System
Mirjam Strupler Leiser, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: LABOUR, 2017, 31(2), 204–222
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6344
Hiring Costs of Skilled Workers and the Supply of Firm-Provided Training
Marc Blatter, Samuel Mühlemann, Samuel Schenker, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 238-257
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6300
Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment
Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015
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