to ex-post identify poaching of apprenticeship completers, our paper is the first to directly investigate the correlation … apprenticeship training activity in reaction to past poaching. Instead, our findings indicate that the lower training activity in … apprenticeship completers hired from rivals. …

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

first to analyse these differences. Quality differences of apprenticeship quality between training firms that have been … apprenticeship quality. -- Wage mark-up ; apprenticeship training ; occupations …

In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of …

-related ability. We apply this model to the German apprenticeship system and show that cognitive ability certified by external … institutions at that the end of apprenticeship training can be signalled to outside employers. Apprenticeship graduates however …

job applicants based on apprenticeship wages. It shows that post-apprenticeship employer changers are a negative selection … training firm retention rates. Additional training firm signals are high apprenticeship wages that signal a positive selection … of apprenticeship applicants, works councils and establishment size. Finally, positive individual signals such as …

the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits … apprenticeship result in average wage losses, whereas an occupation change within the training firm results in persistent wage gains …