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Investigating the image deficit of VET : occupational prestige ranking depending on the educational requirements and the skill content of occupations

Abrassart, Aurélien; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019

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Things versus people: gender differences in vocational interests and in occupational preferences

Kuhn, Andreas; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020

Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive requirements in 130 distinct learnable occupations in the Swiss apprenticeship system to describe the broad job content in these...

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Things versus people : gender differences in vocational interests and in occupational preferences

Kuhn, Andreas; Wolter, Stefan C. - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 203 (2022), pp. 210-234

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Quereinsteiger in den Lehrberuf am Beispiel der schweizerischen Berufsbildung

Wolter, Stefan C.; Hof, Stefanie; Strupler, Mirjam - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011

erlernten Beruf möglich ist, Lehrperson für berufskundliche Fächer an einer Berufsfachschule zu werden. Es handelt sich also bei … allen Berufsfachlehrpersonen um Quereinsteigerinnen und Quereinsteiger, die den Beruf der Lehrperson als Zweitberuf wählen … haben im Durchschnitt in ihrem angestammten Beruf mehr verdient hatten als vergleichbare Personen. Trotzdem erwartet aber …

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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale Randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

This paper presents the results of a randomized experiment analyzing the use of vouchers for adult training. In 2006, 2,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice. User behavior was compared with a control group...

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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training

Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

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Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training

Kuhn, Andreas; Schweri, Jürg; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019

Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with...

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Local norms describing the role of the state and the private provision of training

Kuhn, Andreas; Schweri, Jürg; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022689

Are apprenticeships business cycle proof?

Luethi, Samuel; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2018

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Moretti, Luca; Mayerl, Martin; Mühlemann, Samuel; … - 2017

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of similarities, including an extensive vocational education and training (VET) system, and a common border,...

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