Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants … selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To overcome the resulting ability bias we estimate returns to … apprenticeship for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot complete their training in …

apprenticeship system which is merged with the employment biographies of more than 8,000 apprenticeship graduates for the 1999 …

This paper assesses the potential of "workplace training" with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational … broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the effectiveness of apprenticeship using a large administrative dataset. We find … returns to apprenticeship for even the lowest ability school-leavers comparable to standard estimates of the return to school …

occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make … women compared to men. -- gender wage gap ; actual experience ; occupational mobility ; apprenticeship …