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Health, personality disorders, work commitment and training to employment transitions
Patzina, Alexander; Dietrich, Hans; Barabasch, Anton - 2022
This study analyzes the influence of mental and physical health, coping abilities, cooperativeness, and work commitment … transitions. Overall health, coping abilities and work commitment are important in terms of finding decent employment. However … and contains information on their schooling, health, personality disorders and work attitudes. The register data measure …
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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - 2014
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010394634
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Apprenticeship and youth unemployment
Cahuc, Pierre; Hervelin, Jérémy - 2020
In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employment rate of apprentices is about 15 percentage points higher than that of vocational students. Despite this difference, this paper shows that there is almost no difference between the probability of getting a...
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Personnel policy adjustments when apprentice positions are unfilled : evidence from German establishment data
Hinz, Tina - 2016
German firms have increasing difficulties in filling apprentice positions. I study how firms adjust their personnel policies when they face unfilled apprentice positions. Using the IAB Establishment Panel (2008-2014) and applying fixed effects panel estimations, I find that small firms react by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534360
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Good occupation - bad occupation? The quality of apprenticeship training
Goeggel, Kathrin; Zwick, Thomas - 2009
Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer and occupation changers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298796
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Works councils, collective bargaining and apprenticeship training
Kriechel, Ben; Mühlemann, Samuel; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training in Germany. The German law attributes works councils substantial information and co-determination rights to training-related issues. Thus, works councils may also have an impact on the cost-benefit relation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282625
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Personnel policy adjustments when apprentice positions are unfilled: Evidence from German establishment data
Hinz, Tina - 2016
German firms have increasing difficulties in filling apprentice positions. I study how firms adjust their personnel policies when they face unfilled apprentice positions. Using the IAB Establishment Panel (2008-2014) and applying fixed effects panel estimations, I find that small firms react by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539577
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Poaching and firm-sponsored training : first clean evidence
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...
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Can a Standardized Aptitude Test Predict Training Success of Apprentices? Evidence from a Case Study in Switzerland
Siegenthaler, Michael - 2011
Due to a widely spread distrust in the signaling value of school grades, Swiss employers require external, standardized aptitude test results when recruiting new apprentices. However, the predictive quality of such test results has never been thoroughly researched. Therefore, this case study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130275
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Works Councils, Collective Bargaining and Apprenticeship Training
Kriechel, Ben - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training in Germany. The German law attributes works councils substantial information and co-determination rights to training-related issues. Thus, works councils may also have an impact on the cost-benefit relation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107202