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We examine the impact of sector-specific minimum wages in Germany on the willingness of youths to undergo vocational …
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Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht für Deutschland, welche Faktoren die Entscheidung beeinflussen nach einer …
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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...
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Although apprenticeship training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school-to-work transition of non-college bound students, most studies rely on cross country or cross track comparisons. This study compares apprenticeship training students with non-apprentices within...
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existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state …
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existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state …
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curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of training curricula provide us with a quasi … when they have more choice options in the training curriculum because of (1) the higher productivity of graduates who have … graduates. We test this hypothesis on data on the supply of apprenticeship places in Germany in all occupations from 2004 to …
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This paper presents an empirical exploration of the geography of adolescents' occupational choices, using data covering a single cross-section of the population of all individual-level apprenticeship contracts in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. The unique feature of the data is that they...
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This paper estimates peer effects in a university context where students are randomly assigned to sections. While students benefit from better peers on average, low-achieving students are harmed by high-achieving peers. Analyzing students' course evaluations suggests that peer effects are driven...
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