Previous studies have found mixed evidence regarding the effects of the minimum wage on training levels. This paper exploits a discontinuity in the minimum wage received by apprentices in the United Kingdom to examine this question. Workers aged 19-20 receive a substantial increase in the...

This paper undertakes a meta study on informal apprenticeship in developing countries. It compares the findings of country-level research conducted by the ILO and others in the past 15 years to shed more light on apprenticeship systems in the informal economy. It discusses the features and...

This paper undertakes a meta study on informal apprenticeship in developing countries. It compares the findings of country-level research conducted by the ILO and others in the past 15 years to shed more light on apprenticeship systems in the informal economy. It discusses the features and...

This paper undertakes a meta study on informal apprenticeship in developing countries. It compares the findings of country-level research conducted by the ILO and others in the past 15 years to shed more light on apprenticeship systems in the informal economy. It discusses the features and...

The number of new apprenticeship training contracts has been declining for years. The decline can be explained by a variety of factors. It can initially be assumed that the economic development due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated loss of training places offer an explanation. However,...

Previous studies have found mixed evidence regarding the effects of the minimum wage on training levels. This paper exploits a discontinuity in the minimum wage received by apprentices in the United Kingdom to examine this question. Workers aged 19-20 receive a substantial increase in the...

The ENSSURE project entails a component of introducing a Dual VET-Apprenticeship in Nepal. This new formal upper secondary education programme combines about one day of classroom education with about five days of workplace training each week for two years. While this project is in its pilot...

The ENSSURE project entails a component of introducing a Dual VET-Apprenticeship in Nepal. This new formal upper secondary education programme combines about one day of classroom education with about five days of workplace training each week for two years. While this project is in its pilot...

The survey explores the working arrangements and earnings that apprentices received during 2018-19. The survey included almost 10,000 telephone interviews with apprentices enrolled on a course in Great Britain. The report provides statistics on apprentices': working arrangements, basic hourly...

The survey explores the working arrangements and earnings that apprentices received during 2018-19. The survey included almost 10,000 telephone interviews with apprentices enrolled on a course in Great Britain. The report provides statistics on apprentices': working arrangements, basic hourly...

Warum leiden manche Berufe unter Nachwuchsproblemen und andere nicht? Vor dem Hintergrund wachsender Passungsprobleme auf dem Ausbildungsmarkt und zunehmender Fachkräfteengpässe in bestimmten Berufen stellt sich diese Frage mit zunehmender Dringlichkeit. Bisherige Berufswahltheorien können...

This paper estimates the effect that the size of an individual's labour-market entry cohort has on the subsequent duration of search for employment. Survival-analysis methods are applied to empirically assess this relationship using a sample of apprenticeship graduates who entered the German...

This paper estimates the effect that the size of an individual's labour-market entry cohort has on the subsequent duration of search for employment. Survival-analysis methods are applied to empirically assess this relationship using a sample of apprenticeship graduates who entered the German...

Die vorliegende IW-Analyse ermittelt anhand eines theoretischen Modells die Faktoren, welche die unternehmerische Ausbildungsentscheidung beeinflussen, und überträgt dieses Modell auf die Entscheidung, Auszubildende mit Behinderung einzustellen. Mittels einer Unternehmensbefragung wird...

This paper estimates the effect that the size of an individual's labour-market entry cohort has on the subsequent duration of search for employment. Survival-analysis methods are applied to empirically assess this relationship using a sample of apprenticeship graduates who entered the German...

This paper estimates the effect that the size of an individual's labour-market entry cohort has on the subsequent duration of search for employment. Survival-analysis methods are applied to empirically assess this relationship using a sample of apprenticeship graduates who entered the German...

In Thüringen wurden 2015, nach starken Rückgängen in den vergangenen Jahren, etwa so viele Ausbildungsverträge geschlossen, wie im Vorjahr - nämlich 10.032. In das duale System münden im Vergleich zu allen Schulabgängern nach wie vor überproportional mehr Abgänger mit einem...

We study the design of careers by a principal who trains a cash-constrained agent, or apprentice, who is free to walk away at any time. The principal specifies time paths of knowledge transfer, effort provision, and task allocation, subject to the apprentice's continued participation. In the...

"The subject of apprenticeship, one of the more enduring of all economic arrangements, has received more attention from economic historians and the economics profession at large in recent years. Yet, compared, say, with issues such as the economics of slave labor or the rise of formal human...

Mehr als jeder vierte Ausbildungsvertrag in Hamburg wird vor Ablauf der regulären Ausbildungszeit beendet. Gleichwohl bedeutet nicht jede vorzeitige Vertragslösung einen Abbruch der beruflichen Bildungsanstrengungen. Bei genauer Betrachtung fällt auf, dass das Phänomen der vorzeitigen...

Mehr als jeder vierte Ausbildungsvertrag in Schleswig-Holstein wird vor Ablauf der regulären Ausbildungszeit beendet. Gleichwohl bedeutet nicht jede vorzeitige Vertragslösung einen Abbruch der beruflichen Bildungsanstrengungen. Bei genauer Betrachtung fällt auf, dass das Phänomen der...

Fast jeder dritte Ausbildungsvertrag in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wird vor Ablauf der regulären Ausbildungszeit beendet. Gleichwohl bedeutet nicht jede vorzeitige Vertragslösung einen Abbruch der beruflichen Bildungsanstrengungen. Bei genauer Betrachtung fällt auf, dass das Phänomen der...

Angesichts sich verändernder Anforderungen an die Arbeitswelt mit zunehmenden grenzüberschreitenden Austauschbeziehungen und transnational agierenden Unternehmen ist die Internationalisierung der Berufsausbildung ein Thema von wachsender Bedeutung. Für den Erwerb internationaler beruflicher...