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determinants of transitions across types of vocational education. Apprenticeship has a very important role on increasing the hazard …
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occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …
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wages from the end of statutory schooling. We use the model to evaluate the lifecycle return to apprenticeship training and …
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Despite the fact that today’s young cohorts are smaller in number and better educated than their older counterparts, high youth unemployment remains a serious problem in many OECD countries. This reflects a variety of factors, including the relatively high proportion of young people leaving...
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strengthening jobs at intermediate levels of skill. This paper examines the diversity of approaches to apprenticeship and related … the skills of individuals for these occupations. Programs of academic education and apprenticeship programs emphasizing … complementarities. Third, we consider the evidence on the costs and effectiveness of apprenticeship training in several countries. The …
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Can expanded apprenticeship reduce the concerns about the U.S. workforce? The U.S. labor market faces a rise in … the success of apprenticeship systems abroad nor are they or their political leaders aware of the growth of apprenticeship … programs in Australia, England, and other advanced economies. Given the potential for expanded apprenticeship to deal …
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the apprenticeship was performed. …
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emphasizing apprenticeship programs. Results are robust to accounting for ability patterns and to propensity-score matching. …
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How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...
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We show that data on subjective expectations, especially on outcomes from counterfactual choices and choice probabilities, are a powerful tool in recovering ex ante treatment effects as well as preferences for different treatments. In this paper we focus on the choice of occupation, and use...
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