competing, firms. Researchers now recognize that most firms benefit from investing in apprenticeship training. Evidence …Economists once believed firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often … indicates that financial returns to firms vary. Some recoup their investment within the apprenticeship period, while others see …

certification and verification of skills. 3) Build a robust apprenticeship system that emphasizes learning by doing in a context … school to the labor market. Limited skills relative to the demands of employers also play a role. This paper proposes three … major policy initiatives for upgrading and expanding worker training to bolster productivity and wages: 1) Improve access to …

training. The theoretical intuition on the impact of wage floors on education is ambiguous. On the one hand, they raise the … unskilled workers, promoting additional training. Employing a mixed logit model, we estimate the probability of opting for an … apprenticeship for a GSOEP-based sample of youths aged 17 to 24. Unlike the evidence from other countries, we find that increasing …

-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of … skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly - yet differently - rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and …We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than …

-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These plans provide more than 13,000 different skills and the exact duration of … skills acquired during apprenticeship are highly - yet differently - rewarded. We also document rising returns to digital and …We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than …

Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and … thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during … that economic shocks induce a rather small, pro-cyclical immediate response in the apprenticeship market. However, within a …

Dual apprenticeship training is a market-driven form of education at the upper secondary level, taking place in firms … apprenticeship programs offered by firms. Using panel-data of Swiss cantons from 1988-2004, we find that the influence of the … business cycle is statistically significant, but small in size. Instead, supply of apprenticeship programs is driven to a much …

competing, firms. Researchers now recognize that most firms benefit from investing in apprenticeship training. Evidence …Economists once believed firms do not pay to develop occupational skills that workers could use in other, often … indicates that financial returns to firms vary. Some recoup their investment within the apprenticeship period, while others see …

Skills are a central source of high productivity and economic well-being. But what do we mean by productive skills …? Both with regard to measurement and policy, the primary focus in the U.S. has been on academic skills, as measured by tests … consensus is emerging that an array of non-academic skills and occupational skills may be at least as important for labor market …