Context: Vocational education and training (VET) plays a crucial role in the social inclusion of refugees. The aim of this paper is to examine how the VET systems of Austria, Denmark and Germany responded to the arrival of young refugees since 2015. VET in these countries are all categorised as...

Nach der Schule münden viele Jugendliche statt in Ausbildung zunächst in das Übergangssystem ein. Dessen Aufgabenzuschreibung wird politisch von der Vorstellung dominiert, dass es prioritär den schnellen Übergang in eine Berufsausbildung sicherstellen soll. Vernachlässigt werden bei dieser...

The finance wage premium since the 1990s has arguably lured talent away from other industries. However, the allocation of talent is likely to respond to differences in career paths, not in wages at a given date. We use resume data to reconstruct the careers of 11,255 professionals in finance,...

This paper estimates a structural model of job search which accounts for utility costs and benefits linked to mandatory reemployment programs. The estimation uses data from a randomized experiment which generates exogenous variation in the threat of program participation. I use the compensating...