employees in deregulated crafts occupations in comparison to employees in crafts occupations that have not been reformed. Five …

Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of … enormously in the last years in many (European) countries, this has not been the case in Germany. From the outside, therefore, it … may look as if Germany’s low youth unemployment rate is to be credited to the dual system. That observation, however, is …

Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of …

less and have to compete with vocationally trained labor market entrants in a similar field of study? Focusing on Germany …

of vocational training in Germany over five decades, and link curriculum updates to breakthrough technologies using …

continuous vocational training in East Germany. The empirical application is based on a large cross-section that covers about 0 …

We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany …. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding … West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage inequality is no longer rising in Germany and has even been declining …