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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: Evidence from failed firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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Returns to apprenticeship training in Austria: evidence from failed firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

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Comprehensive versus selective schooling in England and Wales: what do we know?

Manning, Alan; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006

with comprehensive schools during the 1960s and 70s. Before the reform, students would take an exam at age eleven, which …-added methodology: they compare outcomes for students passing through either type of school controlling for achievement levels at the … children only enter secondary school at age 11, these effects are likely due to selection bias. Careful choice of treatment and …

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Continuous Training in Germany

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2000

Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I analyze the incidence, financing, and returns to workplace training in Germany for the years 1986 to 1989. Much of this training seems general, and is provided to workers by their employer at no direct cost. While workers typically report larger...

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Zero returns to compulsory schooling in Germany: evidence and interpretation

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; von Wachter, Till - 2005

We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary schools in West German states during the period from 1948 to 1970. While our research design is very similar to studies for various other countries, we find very different...

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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years

Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2003

some students to a total of about two thirds of a year less of schooling while enrolled. I show that the short school years … led indeed to shorter schooling for affected students. Using comparisons across cohorts, states, and secondary school … number of students attending the highest secondary school track or earnings later in life. …

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