of apprenticeship training by changing training procedures towards more training at the work place and thus by decreasing …

Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and … thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during … that economic shocks induce a rather small, pro-cyclical immediate response in the apprenticeship market. However, within a …

This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits … the regional differences in the relative weight of school- and work-based secondary education across Switzerland and … Europe, we determine that apprenticeship training reduces neuroticism and increases agreeableness and conscientiousness …

By exploiting a labor market reform causing an outflow of German workers to Switzerland, we examine the effect of …

The German apprenticeship system is widely known throughout the world. We analyze expenditures on vocational schools on …