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Are apprenticeships business cycle proof?

Lüthi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/3, pp. 1-11

Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby alleviate youth unemployment, many policymakers fear that firms will reduce the number of apprenticeship positions during economic crises, thus exacerbating the problem of...

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Does ICT affect the demand for vocationally educated workers?

Pusterla, Filippo; Renold, Ursula - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-22

implications for countries where vocational education and training (VET) is the most widespread education pro- gram at the upper … vocational education. These results strongly suggest that VET is a valid alterna- tive to a strictly academic education, because … workers with a tertiary VET degree are as good, or better, at adjusting to technological change as workers with a tertiary …

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