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Why do firms train apprentices?: the net cost puzzle reconsidered
Almost all papers on the motivation of German firms to train apprentices take as a stylised fact that training firm... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Apprenticeship; Skills and knowledge; Finance ... [+] Show more
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
This working paper examines how returns to education in the West German labour market have evolved over the last 20... Show more
Date: 2007
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Gender; Outcomes; Income ... [+] Show more
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Earnings losses after non-employment increase with age
This paper shows that earnings losses after unemployment increase with age. First, older employees start out with r... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Income; Demographics; Economics ... [+] Show more
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Explaining women’s success: technological change and the skill content of women’s work
This study uses a new approach for analysing changes in the gender pay gap that is based on direct measures of job ... Show more
Date: 2007
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Skills and knowledge; Technology; Research ... [+] Show more
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The impact of training on earnings: differences between participant groups and training forms
While there is a broad literature on the general wage effect of training, little is known about the effects of diff... Show more
Date: 2003
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Income; Performance; Employment ... [+] Show more
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Unemployment and social exclusion
This paper analyzes the economic and social consequences of job loss which contribute to exclusion from society bas... Show more
Date: 2018
Geographic subjects: Germany; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Culture and society; Employment; Disadvantaged
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Unemployment and online labor
Online labor markets experienced a rapid growth in recent years. They allow for long-distance transactions and offe... Show more
Date: 2018
Geographic subjects: United States; North America
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Employment; Labour market; Demographics
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Dips and floors in workplace training: using personnel records to estimate gender differences
Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evi... Show more
Date: 2011
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Participation; Teaching and learning; Gender ... [+] Show more
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Overqualification of graduates: assessing the role of family background
Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings p... Show more
Date: 2014
Geographic subjects: Germany; Europe
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Outcomes; Qualifications; Culture and society ... [+] Show more
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Noncognitive skills, internet use and educational dropout
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor ma... Show more
Date: 2008
Geographic subjects: Europe; Germany
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Series name: ZEW discussion paper
Subjects: Youth; Gender; Skills and knowledge ... [+] Show more