skills or abilities in the most technical fields of education (engineering, computing, manufacturing). The above average … graduates) or increased skills due to student work (i.e. computing graduates). …

difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario … university education among individuals with lower academic skills. …

institutions at that the end of apprenticeship training can be signalled to outside employers. Apprenticeship graduates however … with respect to the ability of their employees when training is certified by credible external institutions. We apply an …-related ability. We apply this model to the German apprenticeship system and show that cognitive ability certified by external …

Training in firms has an effect on the productivity of employees who receive the training, and depending on the … training employees affects the stability of team structures and employee wages. Concretely, we apply coalition structures and …

of apprenticeship training by changing training procedures towards more training at the work place and thus by decreasing …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 …

skills or abilities in the most technical fields of education (engineering, computing, manufacturing). The above average … graduates) or increased skills due to student work (i.e. computing graduates) …