"Das Berufspraktische Jahr (BPJ) ist eine von den Bildungswerken der Wirtschaft durchgeführte berufsvorbereitende Maßnahme für jüngere Arbeitslose unter 25 Jahren. Es wird in Kooperation mit Betrieben durchgeführt, in denen die Teilnehmer ein Praktikum absolvieren. Die Auswertung einer...

"Das Berufspraktische Jahr (BPJ) ist eine von den Bildungswerken der Wirtschaft durchgeführte berufsvorbereitende Maßnahme für jüngere Arbeitslose unter 25 Jahren. Es wird in Kooperation mit Betrieben durchgeführt, in denen die Teilnehmer ein Praktikum absolvieren. Die Auswertung einer...

This paper analyzes the causal impact of dual vocational education and training (VET) on the labor market insertion of youth. Using matched education and social security records, we estimate the causal impact of a major reform that introduced a new dual track, which combines firm- and...

The paper studies the relationship between teenagers' first labor market experience and subsequent labor market performance using data on all Swedish youths graduating from vocational high schools in the recession years of 1991-94. Sibling fixed-effects combined with detailed data on high school...

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...

We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...

In this paper we investigate the incentives of unemployed workers to wait for a recall when recall probabilities are endogenously determined by the waiting decisions of others. Because of a positive externality that arises when workers seek new employment, an excessive number of workers choose...