This paper investigates how training firms retain their apprenticeship graduates if they are embedded in labor markets without the frictions that the new training literature considers to be essential for investments in general human capital. We hypothesize that performance pay schemes are an...

This paper examines spillover effects from education at the firm level, separating the effects for different levels and types of education and allowing for a curvilinear relationship. Modeling a Cobb-Douglas production function, we show that wages of tertiary-educated workers depend positively...

Der Beitrag untersucht Effekte der Alterung von Beschäftigten auf die betriebliche Produktivität. Anhand des LIAB, eines verknüpften Arbeitnehmer-Arbeitgeber Datensatzes mit Panel-Struktur, kann für Deutschland empirisch gezeigt werden, dass der Alterseffekt auf die Produktivität von...

We analyse how the age structure of a company’s workforce affects company performance using a linked employer employee panel dataset. With demographic changes at hand, this is of utmost importance for firms and organisations. Focussing on the organizational, not the individual level, we...

Dieser Beitrag versucht die Professionalität von Lehrenden aus bildungsökonomischer Perspektive greifbar zu machen und die wichtigsten ökonomisch relevanten Studien und Ergebnisse zu diesem Themengebiet vorzustellen. So wird zum einen die Selektion und Motivation des Lehrers beleuchtet, die...

Anhand des Jugend-Längsschnittdatensatzes TREE auf der Basis der PISA-2000-Erhebung untersuchen wir das Vorkommen, die Gründe und Auswirkungen von Berufswechseln im Übergang von der Lehre in den Arbeitsmarkt. Rund 9 Prozent der Lehrabsolventen, welche ein Jahr nach Lehrabschluss erwerbstätig...

It is a widely held belief that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, the cost of which needs to be recouped after the training period. A new firm-level dataset for Switzerland reveals large variation in net costs across firms and, remarkably, negative net costs...

We empirically investigate the joint training decisions of workers and firms. The aim of our study is to learn how various cost components affect workers’ (non-)participation in training. In particular, we separately consider monetary and non-monetary training costs, which is possible thanks...

Previous research on educational decisions has almost exclusively focused on individual decisions to start a particular education. At the same time, the decision to revise an educational choice has hardly been analyzed, unless it is the decision to drop out. However, dropping out is only one...

Apprenticeship training in Germany is generally considered to be an investment of companies into the human capital of their apprentices. This view is mainly based on the German cost benefit studies which testify training firms high net costs for their apprenticeships, but these results have not...