Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS … to apprenticeship training for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot … complete their training in this firm. Because apprentices will be at different stages in their apprenticeship at that time, the …

In the standard model of human capital with perfect labor markets general training. When labor market frictions … compress the structure of wages in the general skills of their employees. The reason is that the distortion in the wage … structure" turn technologically' general skills into specific' skills. Labor market frictions and institutions such as minimum …

system of apprenticeship training. Many German firms face large net costs of apprenticeship training. Yet they continue to …Much of the current discussion promoting apprenticeship programs in the U.S. proceeds as if it is simply a matter of … provide such training in spite of considerable worker turnover upon completion of the training. The simplest human capital …

In this paper, we survey non-competitive theories of training. With competitive labor markets, firms never pay for … investments in general training, whereas when labor markets are imperfect, firm-sponsored training arises as an equilibrium …

This paper offers and tests a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive. The … firm to provide training. We show that the model can lead to multiple equilibria. In one equilibrium quits are endogenously … high, and as a result employers have limited monopsony power and are willing to supply only little training, while in …

factors summarizing cognitive and non-cognitive teacher skills, we find that both factors have a modest and statistically …