We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...

We examine the determinants of overeducation in Switzerland - an economy generally characterised by excess qualified labor demand. We define those who are overeducated more precisely, and include in our sample only those who work in occupations relating to their educational background. Failing...

Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the life-cycle become manifest with the ageing of the population. Reinvention of human capital policies...

Angesichts der Digitalisierung der Berufswelt wird die Weiterentwicklung der beruflichen Handlungskompetenz des betrieblichen Ausbildungspersonals bedeutsamer. Die Anpassung der Bildungsmöglichkeiten für diese Ziel-gruppe an diese aktuellen Anforderungen ist ein entscheidender Faktor. In...

Im Zuge der seit den späten 1990er Jahren evidenten Knappheit offener Lehrstellen ist auch die Diskussion über die erforderlichen und vorhandenen Einstiegsqualifikationen der Lehrstellensuchenden zusätzlich stimuliert worden. Die Diskussion über Einstiegsqualifikationen hat auch deswegen an...

Im Rahmen der Personalleiterbefragung werden vierteljährlich bis zu 1 000 Personalleiter zu aktuellen Themen befragt. Die Sonderfragen der Befragung im dritten Quartal 2020 bezogen sich auf die Ausbildungssituation der Unternehmen. Die Situation während der Corona-Pandemie hat dazu geführt,...

From a theoretical perspective, the output gap is probably the most comprehensive and convincing concept to describe the cyclical position of an economy. Unfortunately, for practical purposes, the concept depends on the determination of potential output, which is an inherently unobservable...

Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the effect of monopsony power on pay structure, using a direct measure of labour market 'thinness'. We...

Firstly, we investigated the determinants of a) the propensity of Swiss firms to provide apprenticeship training, and b) the intensity of training (measured by the employment share of apprentices). We primarily were interested in the relevance as explanatory factors of the three constituent...