The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Using German … durations, and post-apprenticeship wages are all increasing functions of training intensity. Some implications for the ongoing … register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have …

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

This paper examines the job mobility of teachers with different skills using matched employer-employee data from … with better skills are less likely to leave the profession, which suggests that the documented drop in the quality of …

, paternal cognitive skills). Finally, I do not find any significant effects of changes in student quality on individual teacher …

This paper estimates the causal effects of the 2003 reform of the Italian apprenticeship contract which aimed at … introducing the "dual system" in Italy by allowing on-the-job training. The reform also increased the age eligibility of the … apprenticeship contract and introduced a minimum floor to apprentices' wages. Using administrative data and balancing techniques we …