Die eklatant hohe Jugendarbeitslosigkeit in vielen europäischen Ländern stellt eine enorme ökonomische wie auch …, Initiativen zur Stärkung der Effektivität beruflicher Ausbildung sowie Anpassungen des Kündigungsschutzes und aktivierender …

complementarities. Third, we consider the evidence on the costs and effectiveness of apprenticeship training in several countries. The … final section highlights empirical and policy research results concerning the advantages of apprenticeship training for … strengthening jobs at intermediate levels of skill. This paper examines the diversity of approaches to apprenticeship and related …

Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD 2009) review of youth employment, have recommended expanding apprenticeship training … yet failed to stimulate significant action. Apprenticeship training would seem consistent with American values of …Can expanded apprenticeship reduce the concerns about the U.S. workforce? The U.S. labor market faces a rise in …

on training expenditures, using plant level data for the Republic of Ireland. We pay particular attention to the … for grant receiving plants via a matching estimator and then employing a difference-indifferences technique on this …

This paper studies the role of training vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs. Using a rich … administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … introduced training vouchers and imposed more selective criteria on participants. Besides estimating the overall reform effect …

We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1 …) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2 …) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the returns to training, 3) a common payment for the whole workforce leads to …

We present a Search and Matching model with heterogeneous workers (entrants and incumbents) that replicates the …

terms of transaction costs, the US pay on average higher search/hiring costs in the labor market, and smaller training costs …

occur at any point in time. By relating the standard matching approach to the timing-of-events approach, it demonstrates … of training for unemployed workers in France, using a rich register data set. Training has little impact on unemployment … duration. The contamination of the standard matching estimator due to later entries into treatment is large if the treatment …