Coping with Demographic Change: A Comparative View on Education and Local Government in Germany and Poland

Sackmann, Reinhold; Bartl, Walter; Jonda, Bernadette; Kopycka, Katarzyna; Rademacher, Christian

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10301-3

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“…However, when comparing the East German elasticity with the results obtained from similar regressions on West German data (and with the results reported in Baum andSeitz, 2003 or Grob andWolter, 2007), resource adjustments in East Germany appear to be only slightly larger and not significantly different from adjustments in the demographically more stable West Germany. We cannot speak of significant differences, also because we cannot entirely rule out that the East German Länder in the post-transition period enjoyed somewhat more discretion in policy-making with respect to human resources management, and because we cannot either rule out entirely that we slightly underestimate the true elasticity owing to the use of physical resource indicators (although Weiß andWeishaupt, 1999 andSackmann et al, 2009 suggest that this has not played a major role). The estimates suggest that the 50% decrease in the size of student cohorts in East Germany has translated into a 25% increase of spending per student.…”

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Rapid Demographic Change and the Allocation of Public Education Resources: Evidence from East Germany

Kempkes

2010

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Rapid Demographic Change and the Allocation of Public Education Resources: Evidence from East Germany

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2010

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“…Uncertainty about the future caused delays in decisions to have children and, faced with a lack of job opportunities, many young and well-qualified people emigrated to the western part of Germany. Declining population numbers made it increasingly expensive for the public sector to provide technical and social infrastructures which became ever more oversized in many places [93]. Cutbacks and school closures, for example, were the frequent responses by policymakers in shrinking regions, especially in the eastern part of Germany.…”

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Measuring “equivalent living conditions”? The use of indicators in German federal spatial planning

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Papilloud²

2020

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It is commonly claimed that the use of numbers and indicators in society is on the rise. Yet, it is still unclear why numbers are used in some social fields but not in others. This paper investigates the specific use of indicators in the policy field of federal spatial planning in Germany. While the use of indicators is very common in this area, the guiding idea of equivalent living conditions has not been operationalized with an agreed on set of indicators nor do particular policy instruments targeting 'unequivalent' living conditions exist. Why is this the case? Drawing on literature about the use of scientific knowledge in politics as well as on social studies of quantification processes, we argue that regular monitoring of regional disparities has increased the political salience of the idea of equivalent living conditions. At the same time, a more systematic formalization of this idea has been hampered, firstly, by the entangled competencies of German federalism and secondly, by the ambiguous idea of equivalent living conditions which has faced competition by the more narrowly defined concept of regional economic development and the related GDP indicator.

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“…Firstly, in the course of transformation and education reforms of the late 1990's and after the 2000 the national school curriculum changed (Sackmann, Bartl, Jonda, Kopycka et al 2015). Directly following the abrupt change in 1989, the main foreign language taught in schools, Russian, was replaced by Western European languages, primarily English and German.…”

Section: H2: With the Growing Individual Work Commitment Of Teachers mentioning

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“…With regard to the Polish school sector there is a wealth of evidence on different expansion strategies that are being adopted in the face of demographic decline (Kopycka 2008;Sackmann, Bartl, Jonda, Kopycka et al 2015). Their scope, however, varies across municipalities.…”

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Determinants of early retirement transitions of teachers in Poland - does regional heterogeneity play a role?

Kopycka¹

2014

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This article contributes to the literature on early retirement transitions by testing a line of explanations of this phenomenon in a specific context of public sector employment. It utilizes waves 2006 and 2007 of a longitudinal data set of employment histories of Polish teachers (SIO). Standard structural explanations of early retirement transitions, i.e. labor force restructuring and devaluation of human capital of older workers do not find support in the data. Multilevel logistic regression models show instead that the considerable variance in early retirement risks found in the data can to some degree be explained by labour mobility of prime aged teachers, supporting the thesis of a labor market as generational figuration. The analyses identify two early emploment groups among Polish teachers: 49-54, and 55-59 year olds. Whereas retirement transitions in the younger group are to a greater extent attributable to individual pull factors (like work commitment), regional variation plays a greater role in the older "early retirees" group indicating higher risks of involuntary early retirement in this group.

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Coping with Demographic Change: A Comparative View on Education and Local Government in Germany and Poland

Cited by 15 publications

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Rapid Demographic Change and the Allocation of Public Education Resources: Evidence from East Germany

Rapid Demographic Change and the Allocation of Public Education Resources: Evidence from East Germany

Measuring “equivalent living conditions”? The use of indicators in German federal spatial planning

Determinants of early retirement transitions of teachers in Poland - does regional heterogeneity play a role?

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