This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products. The authors develop and substantiate a law of dependence between competencies and emergence of new markets, and describe the practical aspects of...

Theoretische Überlegungen und empirische Analysen auf Basis einer Befragung von 35 Ausbildungsbetrieben in Bayern zeigen, dass der Beschäftigtenanteil von Auszubildenden mit der Betriebsgröße und den Bruttokosten einer Ausbildung tendenziell abnimmt. Besonders intensiv bilden Betriebe im...

This Paper analyzes training motives of firms and the allocation of productive tasks at the workplace using data from the cost-benefit-survey of the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training for the year 2007 (BIBB-CBS 2007). We distinguish between two training motives, the...

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. There is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and there might be an important element of selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. To...

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

Theoretische Überlegungen und empirische Analysen auf Basis einer Befragung von 35 Ausbildungsbetrieben in Bayern zeigen, dass der Beschäftigtenanteil von Auszubildenden mit der Betriebsgröße und den Bruttokosten einer Ausbildung tendenziell abnimmt. Besonders intensiv bilden Betriebe im...

The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing country is uncertain such that formal education is a noisy...

Firstly, we investigated the determinants of a) the propensity of Swiss firms to provide apprenticeship training, and b) the intensity of training (measured by the employment share of apprentices). We primarily were interested in the relevance as explanatory factors of the three constituent...