age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime … employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of apprenticeship and vocational training. There are no significant …

net costs of training apprentices are substantial in Germany, whereas apprenticeship training is on average profitable … as wages, apprenticeship system-related factors and allocation of tasks to apprentices on the cost-benefit ratio using … between the two countries can be explained by a higher share of productive tasks allocated to apprentices in Switzerland and …

apprentices affects the training decision positively through an improved matching process. In addition, the expected ability of … apprentices also has a positive impact, whereas a more developed system of full-time schooling options for school leavers reduces …

net cost of training (during the training period) are a major determinant for the demand for apprentices. Different count … data models, in particular hurdle models, are used to estimate the effect of net cost on the demand for apprentices. The … for apprentices, once the firm has decided to train. For policy purposes, these results indicate that subsidies for firms …

apprentices’ a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this social procurement policy on a firm’s training …

and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what extent fathers’ unemployment is causal for offsprings’ employment …

This paper investigates the statistical features and the macroeconomic determinants of youth unemployment in a number … policy actions are required for highly persistent series. Second, it investigates the main determinants of youth unemployment …

This paper examines the degree of persistence of youth unemployment (total, male and female) in twenty-four countries …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …