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...

This report describes the development of the KOF Youth Labour Market Index (KOF YLM Index), a tool that allows to compare the labour market situation of youth across countries. This project, developed by the Research Division Education System, aims to disentangle problematic defined as "youth...

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...

Dieser Bericht präsentiert die Resultate der Längsschnittbefragung von Studierenden während ihrer Ausbildung am AKAD College. Dabei wurden alle Studierenden, die zwischen August 2018 und Februar 2020 ein AKAD-Ausbildungsangebot zur Berufsmaturität II starteten, zu mehreren Zeitpunkten ihrer...