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. 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
published as 'So similar and yet so different: A firm's net costs and post-training benefits from apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland' in: Evidence Based HRM, 2019, 7 (2), 229-246.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10976
Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices along the Whole Ability Distribution
Thomas Buser, Noemi Peter, Stefan C. Wolter
revised version published as 'Willingness to compete, gender and career choices along the whole ability distribution' in: Experimental Economics, 2022, 25, 1299 - 1326
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5806
Career Changers in Teaching Jobs: A Case Study Based on the Swiss Vocational Education System
Stefanie Hof, Mirjam Strupler Leiser, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5712
Too Far to Go? Does Distance Determine Study Choices?
Stefan Denzler, Stefan C. Wolter
published also in German as "Der Einfluss des lokalen Hochschulangebots auf die Studienwahl" in: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 2010, 13(4), 683-706
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