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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
Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes after apprenticeship training mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling backgrounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer and occupation changers in industrial occupations face large wage disadvantages, however. We are the first to analyse these differences while those quality differences between training firms that have been widely studied before are small. This paper also explains differences between previous findings by comparing their empirical estimation strategies. It demonstrates that selectivity into occupations and changes, unobserved heterogeneity between occupations, and sample selection matter. Finally, it proposes several improvements in the estimation technique to measure apprenticeship quality.
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Authors: Goeggel, Kathrin; Zwick, Thomas

Corporate authors: Switzerland. Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology. Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education, Firm Behavior and Training Policies

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

Good occupation - bad occupation?: the quality of apprenticeship training