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In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this social procurement policy on a firm's training participation, training intensity, and training...
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curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi … graduates. We test this hypothesis on data on the supply of apprenticeship places in Germany in all occupations from 2004 to …
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This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...
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of apprenticeship training by changing training procedures towards more training at the work place and thus by decreasing …
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In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...
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' share of crossborder workers within our observation period, from 1995 to 2008, led to about 3,500 fewer apprenticeship …
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have attempted to address failures in the apprenticeship markets to expand access or improve training quality. Subsidized … assigned to a formal apprenticeship, and whether apprenticeship positions opened by firms were filled with formal apprentices …
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Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also … in which they operate. In this paper, we focus on the Swiss apprenticeship system and ask whether local norms towards the … private, rather than the public, provision of training influence firms' decisions to offer apprenticeship positions. In line …
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This paper estimates the causal effects of the 2003 reform of the Italian apprenticeship contract which aimed at … apprenticeship contract and introduced a minimum floor to apprentices' wages. Using administrative data and balancing techniques we …
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the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits … apprenticeship result in average wage losses, whereas an occupation change within the training firm results in persistent wage gains …
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