This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math … evidence that young dropouts in today’s economy are not relegated to jobs where basic cognitive skills are not rewarded, and …

It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that … therefore firms only train if they have the possibility to recoup these investments after the training period. A recent study … using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed, however, that for 60 percent of the firms, the apprenticeship …

where firms who match with entrant workers have to incur training costs. As a result, firms are biased against entrant …

strategy centered on upskilling and reskilling through training schemes might not break with past trends of precariousness …