This paper asks how the institutional design of vocational education and training (VET) affects worker adaptability to changing skill demands over the lifecycle. We compare two types of VET systems. Collectivist systems have high employer involvement and focus on specific skills, whereas Statist...

Using unique employer-employee linked full population data from Danish administrative registers, this paper offers the first empirical study to differentiate between three different mechanisms of the union wage premium that are often conflated in the literature: bargaining coverage, individual...