Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....

Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....

This paper estimates the wage effects of mobility across firms and occupations for male workers after apprenticehip in Germany. We employ an instrumental variables approach exploiting variation in regional labor market characteristics. Our estimates imply that pure firm changes and occupation...