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Apprenticeship, vocational training and early labor market outcomes in East and West Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - 2015

We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...

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Residential location and youth unemployment : the economic geography of school-to-work transitions

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial logit models are estimated for male and female German youth. The models control for individual, parent, and household...

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Overeducation: a disease of the school-to-work transition system

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2015

role in helping young graduates develop the work experience and the competences they need to prevent them from experiencing … address the aim of generating competences rather than only education for their graduates. …

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The impact of internship experience during secondary education on schooling and labour market outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student's schooling and early labour market outcomes, by analysing unique, longitudinal...

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A signal of (train)ability? : grade repetition and hiring chances

Baert, Stijn; Picchio, Matteo - 2020

This article contributes to the nascent literature on the effect of grade retention in school on later labour market success. A field experiment is conducted to rule out the endogeneity of both outcomes. More concretely, various treatments of grade retention are randomly assigned to fictitious...

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Why so slow? : the school-to-work transition in Italy

Pastore, Francesco - 2017

This essay provides a comprehensive interpretative framework to understand the reasons why the school-to-work transition (SWT) is so slow and hard in Italy. The country is a typical example of the South European SWT regime, where the educational system is typically rigid and sequential, the...

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Are females scared of competing with males? : results from a field experiment

De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2013

We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender … differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is affected by one's opponent gender. The experimental … design was aimed at disentangling gender differences in taste for competition from other differences in psychological …

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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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Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation : a field experiment

Baert, Stijn; Neyt, Brecht; Siedler, Thomas; Tobback, Ilse - 2019

Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job...

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Training, wages and a missing school graduation cohort

Dorner, Matthias; Görlitz, Katja - 2020

This study analyzes the effects of a missing high school graduation cohort on firms' training provision and trainees' wages. An exogenous school reform varying at the state and year level caused the missing cohort to occur. Using administrative social security data on all trainees and training...

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