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It takes three to tango in employment: matching vocational education organisations, students and companies in the labour market
We examine the determinants of labour market status after the International Standard Classification of Education (I ... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Finland
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Employment; Teaching and learning; Research ... [+] Show more
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Technological change and employer-provided training: evidence from German establishments
There is a wide range of theoretical and empirical analyses suggesting that technological change has increased the ... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
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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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations
Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both ... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Economics; Skills and knowledge; Labour market ... [+] Show more
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Specificity of occupational training and occupational mobility: an empirical study based on Lazear's skill-weights approach
According to standard human capital theory, firm financed training cannot be explained if skills are of general nat ... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Switzerland
Resource type: Government report or paper
Series name: Swiss Leading House working paper
Subjects: Apprenticeship; Economics; Labour market
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The effect of quantitative and qualitative training on labour demand in Belgium: a monopolistic competition approach
The objective of this paper is to model and estimate the impact of labour training financed by the firm on labour d ... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Belgium
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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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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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
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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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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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Are firm innovativeness and firm age relevant for the supply of vocational training?: a study based on Swiss micro data
In this study we investigated the determinants of the propensity of Swiss firms to train apprentices and of the int ... 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; Apprenticeship; Economics ... [+] Show more