The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using …

This study examines the impact of enrolling into dual apprenticeship programs in secondary education on six early …-based instruction with an apprenticeship in a firm. Second, these effects are identified by estimating a dynamic model capturing …

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 …

apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit that the availability of foreign workers increased more in firms close to the … border because they gained unrestricted access to cross-border workers from Switzerland's neighboring countries. Our … not necessarily substitutes: opening the borders did not have a statistically significant effect on apprenticeship …

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 …

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

' share of crossborder workers within our observation period, from 1995 to 2008, led to about 3,500 fewer apprenticeship …

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 …

apprenticeship training. Our empirical analysis draws on four waves of firm surveys conducted in Germany and Switzerland that include … tightness as an instrumental variable, we identify a substantial hiring cost elasticity of apprenticeship contracts of 1.4 for …