-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of … skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly - yet differently - rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and …We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … education and training (VET) system, and a common border, there are some important institutional differences. On average, a … Swiss firm generates a net profit of 3400 Euro per apprentice and per year of training, while an Austrian firm incurs net …

premature employment and training contract termination in the apprenticeship education sector. The paper extends the small but …

Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate …

-competent workforce, as supported by firms’ training and recruitment plans. Conversely, ODT investment does not significantly alter total …

) medal in a particular occupation at the World Skills—the world championship of vocational skills. In an occupation with a … gold medal won, searches for apprenticeship vacancies increase significantly by around 7 percent compared to occupations … and statistically significant, but less pronounced. More importantly, the increase in searches for apprenticeship …

This paper uses teacher assessments at age 16 in Norwegian comprehensive schools to measure different types of skills …. While we follow the literature and interpret test scores in Mathematics and Science as proxy for cognitive skills, we use a … novel measure for another type of skills: Performance in behavioral and practical subjects. Using individual register data …