Despite improved access to all educational levels, many countries around the world struggle with integrating young people into the labor market. The 2007 economic crisis exacerbated the problem, but not all countries were affected in the same way. This led to a vivid debate about how education...

Von der Öffentlichkeit weitgehend unbemerkt hat sich die Arbeitslosigkeit in der Schweiz trotz eines regelrechten Jobwunders in den letzten 20 Jahren erhöht. Es deutet Vieles darauf hin, dass es sich um einen Anstieg der strukturellen Arbeitslosigkeit handelt - also jener Arbeitslosigkeit,...

This paper sheds light on the questions how important competences are and which competences can best be learned at school and which competences can be acquired better in the workplace. Exploiting data from a survey among professional tertiary education and training business administration...

This paper uses panel data of Swiss firms to analyze the impact of education-level diversity in the workforce on innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within-firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across regions. We find that vertical educational diversity...

Switzerland is famous for its vocational education and training (VET) system. This article describes Switzerland's success in integrating adolescents into the labour market, with emphasis on two aspects. First, dual-track VET, which combines learning at school and in host companies, is an...