The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using …

Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also … in which they operate. In this paper, we focus on the Swiss apprenticeship system and ask whether local norms towards the … private, rather than the public, provision of training influence firms' decisions to offer apprenticeship positions. In line …

Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also … in which they operate. In this paper, we focus on the Swiss apprenticeship system and ask whether local norms towards the … private, rather than the public, provision of training influence firms' decisions to offer apprenticeship positions. In line …

Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and … thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during … that economic shocks induce a rather small, pro-cyclical immediate response in the apprenticeship market. However, within a …

apprenticeship training. Our empirical analysis draws on four waves of firm surveys conducted in Germany and Switzerland that include … tightness as an instrumental variable, we identify a substantial hiring cost elasticity of apprenticeship contracts of 1.4 for …