This study analyzes the relationship between firms’ costs of hiring skilled workers and their provision of internal apprenticeship training. Our empirical analysis draws on four waves of firm surveys conducted in Germany and Switzerland that include detailed information on firms’ hiring...

It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that therefore firms only train if they have the possibility to recoup these investments after the training period. A recent study using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed,...

Cover -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Comparative advantages of school and workplace environment in skill acquisition -- The relative importance of type of education and subject area:empirical evidence for educational decisions -- Pre-training competencies and the productivity...