Der Strukturwandel zur Wissens- und Dienstleistungswirtschaft führt zu einer steigenden Nachfrage nach hoch qualifizierten Erwerbstätigen, die im Innovationswettbewerb eine Schlüsselrolle spielen. Dies betrifft zentral zum einen wissenschaftlich ausgebildetes Personal für Forschung und...

This paper adopts an economic perspective for an investigation of the correlation between cost-benefit aspects and company decisions regarding training. A differentiation is drawn between the basic decision about whether a company should provide its own training and the stipulation of the number...

Continuing vocational training is considered to play an important role in both social and occupational inclusion. The present paper will analyse the influence this exerts on participation in continuing vocational training and on private expenditure, the latter being measured in terms of the...

Purpose: For young people with a migrant background in Germany transition from school to company-based vocational training is much more difficult than for non-migrants. This remains true, when data is controlled for the lower performance of young migrants in general education. In this paper we...

Numerous past studies dealing with the transition into initial vocational education and training in Germany have shown that young people with migration backgrounds have significantly poorer chances of ending up in in-company initial vocational education and training than those without migration...

For the first time it has been made possible to merge a German and a Swiss firm-level data set that include detailed information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyzes based only on aggregate data showed that the net costs of training apprentices are substantial...