apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an … first to analyse these differences. Quality differences of apprenticeship quality between training firms that have been … apprenticeship quality. -- Wage mark-up ; apprenticeship training ; occupations …

Previous studies have found mixed evidence regarding the effects of the minimum wage on training levels. This paper … exploits a discontinuity in the minimum wage received by apprentices in the United Kingdom to examine this question. Workers …, regression discontinuity design estimates suggest that the increase in the minimum wage has no overall effect on training among …

We analyze the short-run impact of the introduction of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany on further training at … reduction in the training incidence but a slight reduction in the intensity of training at treated establishments. Effect … heterogeneities reveal that the negative impact is mostly driven by employer-financed training. On the worker level, we observe a …

contributes to the ongoing debate as to why firms are willing to invest in such training even though many apprentices will leave … find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have (1) higher wages and (2) longer first …-job durations than apprentices leaving the training firm. These results support theories according to which firms use the …

In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the … impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two …-in-differences techniques for the period 1998 to 2000, we find no evidence that the introduction of the minimum wage reduced the training of …

Workers acquire skills through formal schooling, through training provided by governments, and through training … recent years despite the sizable contribution of firm training to the overall stock of worker human capital. We engage with … research on the determinants of receipt of firm training, the effects of firm training on workers outcomes, and various policy …

of the returns to general training and be willing to pay for it despite its general nature. However this outcome is not … efficient, in the sense that too few workers are trained and workers who are hired receive too little training. We consider how … different institutions can affect this inefficiency. Industry-level minimum wages can remove the training inefficiency and …

least in England). When broader measures of training are considered, which exclude apprentices, the weight of the evidence …The existing empirical evidence on the relationship between apprenticeships, initial workplace training and economic … downturns, is relatively scarce. The bottom line of this literature is that ratio of apprentices to employees tends to be …

net cost of training (during the training period) are a major determinant for the demand for apprentices. Different count … that already train apprentices would not boost the demand for apprentices. -- apprenticeship training ; count data ; probit …It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that …

to the apprentice's continued participation. In the optimal contract, the apprentice pays for training by working for low …