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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - 2014
after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany …
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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015
the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510683
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Good occupation - bad occupation? : the quality of apprenticeship training
Göggel, Kathrin; Zwick, Thomas - 2009
Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer and occupation changers in...
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Coaching disadvantaged young people : evidence from firm level data
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2014
In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394483
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Poaching and firm-sponsored training : first clean evidence
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013
training firms in Germany are poaching victims. Firms are more likely to poach employees during an economic downturn. Training …
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Why do firms train apprentices? : the net cost puzzle reconsidered
Mohrenweiser, Jens (contributor); Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the short-term costs and benefits of apprenticeship training in Germany. It calls into question …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671257
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
mark-up stronger than in Germany in the wake of skill-biased technological change. The reason is that the unskilled … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444759
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I estimate the wage gap between part-time and full-time employees in … Germany and the Netherlands, taking into account individual and job-specific characteristics and treating participation and … years in employment. The comparison with the wage structure in the Netherlands, which exhibits much smaller wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445955
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Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?
Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian; Maier, Michael F. - 2013
We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start immediately after leaving school, but were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784072
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Work-related ability as source of information advantages of training employers
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Wydra-Sommaggio, Gaby; Zwick, Thomas - 2015 - This version August 2015
This paper addresses the puzzle how employers that invest in general human capital can gain an information advantage with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an established model from the employer-learning literature...
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