Unbestritten kommt der Ausstattung und Qualität des Humankapitals eine immer größere Rolle für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Landes oder eines einzelnen Unternehmens zu. Dabei kann der Bestand an Humankapital zwar sowohl auf private als auch auf betriebliche oder staatliche...

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...

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...

This paper presents the first longitudinal estimates of the effect of work-related training on labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted...