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Are Apprenticeships Business Cycle Proof?

Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018

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 economic crises, thus exacerbating the problem of youth...

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Making It Real: The Benefits of Workplace Learning in Upper-Secondary VET Courses

Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013

In OECD countries, 'real world' upper-secondary vocational education and training (VET) programs are used to engage …. In general terms, VET programs with high employer involvement, such as apprenticeship schemes, are considered to be … superior to classroom-based VET programs that are typically found in many English-speaking countries. In this study, we examine …

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A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market

Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2014

This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic crisis of 2008, is crucial as it is currently faced...

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Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training

Kuhn, Andreas; Schweri, Jürg; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019

Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with...

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Youth labour markets in Europe and Central Asia

O'Higgins, Niall - 2010

Transition to the market economy in ECA opened up a range of potential opportunities for young people. It has also raised a series of challenges. Youth unemployment and joblessness have emerged as serious problems with the potentially very high costs. Formal Education and Training systems have...

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Career changers in teaching jobs: A case study based on the Swiss vocational education system

Hof, Stefanie; Strupler, Mirjam; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011

This study investigates the determinants and motives of professionals who change career to vocational teaching. The framework for this study is the Swiss vocational education system, which requires that teachers of vocational subjects must have a prior career in that specific field. Thus, to...

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Fully Integrating Upper-Secondary Vocational and Academic Courses: A Flexible New Way?

Polidano, Cain; Tabasso, Domenico - 2016

the vocational education and training (VET) track, which in many countries leads to the stigmatisation of VET courses. To … tackle this problem, Australia blurred the lines between the two tracks by introducing VET courses that count to both a … national VET qualification and university entry. In this study, we estimate the impacts of taking these courses on academic …

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IT Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations

Eggenberger, Christian; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

This paper examines how workers' earnings change after involuntary job separations depending on the workers' acquired IT skills and the specificity of their occupational training. We categorize workers' occupational skill bundles along two independent dimensions. First, we distinguish between...

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Train Drain? Access to Foreign Workers and Firms' Provision of Training

Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2023

Does better access to foreign workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit that the...

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Youth Unemployment in Old Europe: The Polar Cases of France and Germany

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2013

France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a lost generation may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many years,...

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