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Does Less Wage Compression Lead to Less Training in Germany? An Expansion of Acemoglu and Pischke's Model of Training in Imperfect Labor Markets

Neubäumer, Renate - 2016

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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The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships

Jansen, Anika - 2016

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 … 2014. We find that a more heterogeneous curriculum increases both firms' supply of and students' demand for training places …

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The geography of occupational choice : empirical evidence from the Swiss apprenticeship market

Kuhn, Andreas - 2022

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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The value of early-career skills

Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

We develop novel measures of early-career skills that are more detailed, comprehensive, and labor-market-relevant than existing skill proxies. We exploit that skill requirements of apprenticeships in Germany are codified in state-approved, nationally standardized apprenticeship plans. These...

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The value of early-career skills

Langer, Christina; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

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The Geography of Occupational Choice : Empirical Evidence from the Swiss Apprenticeship Market

Kuhn, Andreas - 2022

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Dropping out and revising educational decisions: Evidence from vocational education

Bessey, Donata; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

Previous research on educational decisions has almost exclusively focused on individual decisions to start a particular education. At the same time, the decision to revise an educational choice has hardly been analyzed, unless it is the decision to drop out. However, dropping out is only one...

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Apprenticeship Training – What for? Investment in Human Capital or Substitute for Cheap Labour?

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

Apprenticeship training in Germany is generally considered to be an investment of companies into the human capital of their apprentices. This view is mainly based on the German cost benefit studies which testify training firms high net costs for their apprenticeships, but these results have not...

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Premature Apprenticeship Terminations: An Economic Analysis

Bessey, Donata; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2007

This paper presents empirical evidence on premature terminations of apprenticeship contracts in Germany. Our novel approach uses human capital theory with a regional component as a clear-cut framework for the analysis. It derives testable hypotheses on individual decisions to finish an...

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A Competing Risks Analysis of the Determinants of Low Completion Rates in the Canadian Apprenticeship System

Dostie, Benoit - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010

In this paper, we estimate the determinants of low (and slow) completion rates with a competing risk duration model using data from the National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) 2007. This allows us to distinguish the impact age and duration dependence on the probability of dropping out. We find...

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