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Risk-return trade-offs to complete educational paths: vocational, academic and mixed
This paper investigates the rates of return and the risks of different types of educational paths after compulsory ... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Outcomes; Pathways ... [+] Show more
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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?
We use a unique data set about the future wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex-ante, sugg... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Sweden
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Qualifications; Students; Economics ... [+] Show more
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Time - even more costly than money: training costs of workers and firms
We empirically investigate the joint training decisions of workers and firms. The aim of our study is to learn how ... Show more
Date: 2009
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Participation; Employment ... [+] Show more
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What happened to the PISA 2000 participants five years later?
The transition from school-to-work has been a burning issue in most countries for the last decades. So far research... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Outcomes; Research ... [+] Show more
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Apprenticeship training: what for?: investment in human capital or substitute for cheap labour?
Apprenticeship training in Germany is generally considered to be an investment of companies into the human capital ... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Apprenticeship; Economics; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more
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Good occupation - bad occupation?: the quality of apprenticeship training
Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes after apprenticeship training mask large differenc... Show more
Date: 2009
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Apprenticeship; Career development; Economics ... [+] Show more
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The impact of job training on the performances of Moroccan firms: empirical evidence with firm-level panel data
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of job training programs, as part of the special training contract... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Africa; Morocco
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Vocational education and training; Research; Economics ... [+] Show more
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Training propensity of start-ups in Switzerland: a study based on data for the start-up cohort 1996-97
This study is based on data of a cohort of Swiss firms that were founded in 1996/97. In the year 2000 data were col... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Apprenticeship; Economics; Research
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What is it about schooling that the labor market rewards?: the components of the return to schooling
Research on determining what it is about schooling that the labour market rewards is scarce. This paper shows that ... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Research; Economics; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more
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Dropping out and revising educational decisions: evidence from vocational education
Previous research on educational decisions has almost exclusively focused on individual decisions to start a partic... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Apprenticeship; Research; Economics ... [+] Show more