certification and verification of skills. 3) Build a robust apprenticeship system that emphasizes learning by doing in a context … school to the labor market. Limited skills relative to the demands of employers also play a role. This paper proposes three … major policy initiatives for upgrading and expanding worker training to bolster productivity and wages: 1) Improve access to …

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our paper … the training firm soon after completion of the apprenticeship. Using German register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we … apprenticeship system to select and retain the more able apprentices, thereby recouping the costs of investing in skills that are …

training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the … unskilled workers, promoting additional training. Employing a mixed logit model, we estimate the probability of opting for an … apprenticeship for a GSOEP-based sample of youths aged 17 to 24. Unlike the evidence from other countries, we find that increasing …

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 …

training tend to mirror specific national models of economic production. For example, the German dual apprenticeship system is … a core feature of the corporatist model of "diversified quality production". This, in turn, is supported via skills …-protecting, earnings-related unemployment insurance, skills-oriented active labor market policies and strong dismissal protection so that …

information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyses based only on aggregate data showed that the … net costs of training apprentices are substantial in Germany, whereas apprenticeship training is on average profitable … during the training period for firms in Switzerland, even though the two training systems are rather similar. This paper …

The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our paper … the training firm soon after completion of the apprenticeship. Using German register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we … apprenticeship system to select and retain the more able apprentices, thereby recouping the costs of investing in skills that are …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … education and training (VET) system, and a common border, there are some important institutional differences. On average, a … Swiss firm generates a net profit of 3400 Euro per apprentice and per year of training, while an Austrian firm incurs net …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … education and training (VET) system, and a common border, there are some important institutional differences. On average, a … Swiss firm generates a net profit of 3400 Euro per apprentice and per year of training, while an Austrian firm incurs net …

information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyses based only on aggregate data showed that the … net costs of training apprentices are substantial in Germany, whereas apprenticeship training is on average profitable … during the training period for firms in Switzerland, even though the two training systems are rather similar. This paper …