of apprenticeship training by changing training procedures towards more training at the work place and thus by decreasing …

Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and … thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during … that economic shocks induce a rather small, pro-cyclical immediate response in the apprenticeship market. However, within a …

By exploiting a labor market reform causing an outflow of German workers to Switzerland, we examine the effect of …

a single cross-section of the population of all individual-level apprenticeship contracts in the canton of Bern in … Switzerland. The unique feature of the data is that they cover both the training firm's location and the apprentice's domicile at …, the data show that there are large and pervasive differences across different local apprenticeship markets. More …