) system in Switzerland, which has recently received substantial attention across Europe. We argue that, holding everything … approach to test whether growing knowledge of the education system increases the social status of dual VET in Switzerland. Our … stay in Switzerland, thus reflecting their learning process about the Swiss education system. …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using …

Switzerland is famous for its vocational education and training (VET) system. This article describes Switzerland …'s dilemma, but Switzerland has managed to sidestep that issue and minimize concerns about poaching. Finally, we discuss what …

Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also … in which they operate. In this paper, we focus on the Swiss apprenticeship system and ask whether local norms towards the … private, rather than the public, provision of training influence firms' decisions to offer apprenticeship positions. In line …

apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit that the availability of skilled workers increased more in firms close to the … did not have a statistically significant effect on apprenticeship provision. We show theoretically and empirically that …

apprenticeship training. Our empirical analysis draws on four waves of firm surveys conducted in Germany and Switzerland that include … tightness as an instrumental variable, we identify a substantial hiring cost elasticity of apprenticeship contracts of 1.4 for …

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 …

of fifty percent. -- Field experiment ; voucher ; adult education ; training ; Switzerland …

This paper assesses the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train …