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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany … apprenticeship graduation. …
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Poaching and firm-sponsored training: First clean evidence
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...
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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among young Workers
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make …
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Mobilität nach der beruflichen Ausbildung: Eine empirische Studie für Westdeutschland
Franz, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Volker - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
Ob und wie lange Jugendliche nach Abschluß ihrer Lehre weiterhin im Ausbildungsbetrieb arbeiten, ist eine Fragestellung, deren Beantwortung für das Verständnis des Arbeitsmarktes in mehrfacher Hinsicht von Nutzen sein kann. Zum einen liefern Abgänge aus dem Ausbildungsbetrieb ohne...
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Job shopping after vocational training? An empirical analysis of the transition from apprenticeship training to work
Franz, Wolfgang; Zimmermann, Volker - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This econometric study deals with the question as to what extent apprentices after successfully completing their training stay with the firm where they have received their training and, if so, how long that job tenure holds. Determinants of both decisions can be seen from both the employer`s and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098198
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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?
Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship …. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start … searched for apprenticeship positions unsuccessfully directly leaving school and analyse the effect of the subsidy on the risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985665
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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …
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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?
Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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How important is industry-specific managerial experience for innovative firm performance?
Balsmeier, Benjamin; Czarnitzki, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …
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