estimation strategies. It demonstrates that selectivity into occupations and changers, unobserved heterogeneity between … occupations, and the sample selection matter and proposes several improvements in the estimation technique to measure …

comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive …

survey?, a rich German data set with information on 0.1 percent of all individuals employed in Germany in 1998/1999. We use a … one-step full-information maximum likelihood and a two stage least squares estimation to regress the impact of training …

Empirical work on continuing training in Germany provides surprisingly divergent evidence on the incidence of training … correlation between continuing vocational training and wages are examined. Results are compared in order to analyse in how far …

employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …

In Deutschland werden vielfach hohe Anforderungen an die berufliche Qualifikation von Existenzgründern gestellt. Im …. Wirtschaftlicher und technologischer Wandel erfordern vielmehr in vielen Bereichen vermehrte Investitionen in Bildung und Weiterbildung. … self-employed and job movers. The analysis is based on a cross section of individual data for West Germany in 1991 …

after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany …