in apprenticeship training. Firms gain from the apprentice’s contributions to production, reduced turnover and training …Are apprenticeships valuable for firms? Economists once thought that firms do not pay to develop occupational skills …

in apprenticeship training. Firms gain from the apprentice’s contributions to production, reduced turnover and training …Are apprenticeships valuable for firms? Economists once thought that firms do not pay to develop occupational skills …

training institution and pass one or more tests, the notion being that these preservice requirements ensure a basic level of …

. This presents a conundrum. Why would people pay for apprenticeship training that does not benefit them? Research reveals …Apprenticeships are the most common form of non-academic training in sub-Saharan Africa. Most apprenticeships are … measured, they show that earnings are not higher, on average, for people who did an apprenticeship than for those who did not …

Training through apprenticeship provided the main mechanism for occupational human capital formation in pre … apprenticeship to secure training contracts. Premiums varied in response to scarcity rents, the expected productivity of masters and … access to apprenticeship training for youths from modest families. …

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 …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of the apprenticeship system in a country, which provides large …-scale employer-provided training for new entrants on the labour market. The overview includes institutional traits of the Danish … labour market which help sustain the system by alleviating failures in the market for training. Estimation results indicate a …

training, are as follows. Employment in the enterprises of the limited population increased by 0.3 p.c. on average between 2003 … the staff movements. The net inflow of workers has been broken down by their level of training and the gross outflow of … expressed by European and Belgian authorities, the formal training indicators again showed a drop in 2004, except for the …