This study analyzes the relationship between firms’ costs of hiring skilled workers and their provision of internal apprenticeship training. Our empirical analysis draws on four waves of firm surveys conducted in Germany and Switzerland that include detailed information on firms’ hiring...

As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage expectations on their choice to pursue a nursing college education. This analysis contributes to a small yet rapidly developing body of literature that uses subjective expectation...

In recent applications of discrete choice models of labour supply considerable attention has been devoted to strategies to increase the flexibility of models for a better fit to the data. These include the introduction of random parameters, fixed cost of work or flexible functional forms of...