Der vorliegende Band wurde aus den Beiträgen der Frühjahrstagung des Arbeitskreises Politische Ökonomie zum Thema "Hochschulökonomie" in Kooperation mit der Evangelischen Akademie Bad Boll zusammengestellt. Inhalt: Grözinger, Gerd/Hödl, Erich: Vorwort. - Maier, Harry: Die Interdependenz...

We expand Acemoglu and Pischke's seminal model of training in imperfect labor markets by including the system of collective wage bargaining and the components of firms' training costs. Thus we can adapt their model to institutional changes that occurred since the 1990s. The model and the...

Zusammenfassung: This dissertation includes four studies in the field of empirical labour economics with a focus on risk in labour markets. In Chapter 1 the effect of an employment subsidy programme on early apprenticeship dropout is evaluated. The programme can be considered a preventive...

In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to cross-border workers will lead some employers to...

We evaluate the German apprenticeship system, which combines on-the-job training with classroom teaching, by modelling individual careers from the choice to join such a scheme and followed by their employment, job to job transitions and wages over the lifecycle. Our data is drawn from...