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Training, job security and incentive wages

Katsimē, Margarita - 2003

This paper considers the optimal level of firm-specific training by taking into account the positive effect of training on the expected duration of workers current employment. In the framework of an efficiency wage model, a short expected job tenure represents a disamenity that reduces the...

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General training by firms, apprentice contracts, and public policy

Malcomson, James M.; Maw, James W.; McCormick, Barry - 2002

Workers will not pay for general on-the-job training if contracts are not enforceable. Firms may if there are mobility frictions. Private information about worker productivities, however, prevents workers who quit receiving their marginal products elsewhere. Their new employers then receive...

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Size of training firms : the role of firms, luck, and ability in young workers' careers

Müller, Steffen; Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of...

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Verbleib und Abwanderung aus dem Handwerk : die Arbeitsmarktmobilität von handwerklichen Nachwuchskräften

Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Gelzer, Anja - 2016

Das Handwerk leistet traditionell einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur beruflichen Qualifizierung junger Schulabsolventinnen und Schulabsolventen. Nicht alle Fachkräfte, die im Handwerk ausgebildet werden, verbleiben jedoch nach Ende ihrer Ausbildung in diesem Wirtschaftsbereich. Die Abwanderung...

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Humankapitalbildung und Beschäftigungsperspektiven im Handwerk

Haverkamp, Katarzyna; Sölter, Anja; Kröger, Janbernd - 2009

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Technological change and skill obsolescence : the case of German apprenticeship training

Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996

The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...

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Apprentice poaching in regional labor markets

Stockinger, Bastian; Zwick, Thomas - 2017

A number of studies have found that firms provide less training if they are located in regions with strong labor market competition. This finding is usually interpreted as evidence of a higher risk of poaching in these regions. Yet, there is no direct evidence that regional competition is...

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Apprentice poaching in regional labor markets

Stockinger, Bastian; Zwick, Thomas - 2017 - Updated version May 2, 2017

, Ausbildungsabsolventen abgeworben zu bekommen. Allerdings gibt es keine direkten empirischen Belege für diesen Zusammenhang. Auf Basis eines … neuartigen Ansatzes, das Abwerben von Ausbildungsabsolventen ex post zu identifizieren, untersucht dieses Papier erstmals direkt … Ausbildungsabsolventen zusammenhängt. Zudem sind in solchen Regionen die Betriebswechsler unter den Ausbildungsabsolventen relativ positiv …

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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015

Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics....

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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Licklederer, Stefanie; Zwiener, Hanna - 2015

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