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Varieties within a collective skill formation system : how VET governance in Switzerland is shaped by associations
Bürgi, Regula; Gonon, Philipp - In: International journal for research in vocational … 8 (2021) 1, pp. 46-64
level) in Switzerland to examine the heterogeneity of governance of individual VET programmes that can exist within one … of reasoning of the various associations involved in VET governance. Our analysis is based on expert interviews and … governance documents in two vocational areas: Electrotechnology and food services. Findings: We identify and decode an array of …
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Firms-provided training during the great recession
Bellmann, Lutz; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Leber, Ute - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 234 (2014) 1, pp. 5-22
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Does less wage compression lead to less training in Germany? : an expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of training in imperfect labor markets
Neubäumer, Renate - 2016
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...
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Sources of wage growth
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian - 2022
This paper investigates the sources of wage growth over the life cycle, where individuals have the possibility to acquire vocational training at the start of their career. Wage growth is determined by sectoral and firm mobility, unobserved ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers...
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Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? : evidence from German establishment data
Matthies, Eike; Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Thomä, Jörg; … - 2022 - Updated version
While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have a positive impact on firm-level innovation, empirical evidence on the subject remains scarce. This study exploits establishment data from a representative survey of German...
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Health, personality disorders, work commitment and training to employment transitions
Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; Barabasch, Anton - 2022
on the transition from apprenticeship training to a first job. In doing so, we first investigate transitions to regular … employment within six months post-graduation. Second, we analyze gapless transitions from training to a first job. Third, we … investigate transitions to a decent first job. This study draws on a unique dataset of 1,061 individuals from Germany that …
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The contribution of vocational education and training to innovation and growth
Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Lehnert, Patrick - 2021
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Does initial vocational training foster innovativeness at the company level? : evidence from German establishment data
Matthies, Eike; Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Thomä, Jörg; … - 2021
While an increasing number of conceptual studies postulate that vocational education and training (VET) activities have a positive impact on the innovative capacity of training companies, empirical evidence on the subject remains scarce. This study exploits establishment data from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495922
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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
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Open labor markets and firms' substitution between training apprentices and hiring workers
Aepli, Manuel; Kuhn, Andreas - 2019
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...
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