Apprenticeship Training: A Model for the Future?
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Apprenticeship Training: A Model for the Future?
Zeitschrift Konjunkturpolitik, 48. Jg. (2002), Heft 3-4 (S. 229-389)
(2003)
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How to provide training for youth is one of the fundamental questions a society faces and which must be answered by each generation anew. An ever-changing economic environment poses a constant challenge to both - the content of the training as well as the means by which it is provided. Also, societal preferences are subject to change. How well are the existing institutions of education and training equipped for dealing with and adjusting to the changing requirements, or even for anticipating new ones?This collection of papers takes up the case of the apprenticeship. Since it has proven to be the most important pillar of training for non-college-bound youth in many Western European countries - with other countries considering its implementation as well - the topic of apprenticeship calls for up-to-date in-depth analysis:If so, to what extent is training actually beneficial to the two main parties involved: the trainees and the firm?What prospects do graduating apprentices face on the labor market?What is the relationship between apprenticeship training and early career mobility?What are the costs and benefits to firms offering apprenticeship training?What is the socially optimal amount of training?The release of new and improved datasets allowed many new and interesting questions to be raised that could not have been studied with previously available data. The book provides a valuable resource to anyone interested in apprenticeship training, whether for academic purposes or as practitioner.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jahresinhaltsverzeichnis | 223 | ||
| Dank an die Gutachter | 224 | ||
| Konjunkturpolitik: Zeitschrift für angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung | 227 | ||
| Ziel und Inhalt | 227 | ||
| Herausgeber | 227 | ||
| Konjunkturpolitik: Applied Economies Quarterly | 228 | ||
| Mission | 228 | ||
| Editors | 228 | ||
| Rainer Winkelmann: Editorial | 229 | ||
| Table of Contents | 233 | ||
| Damon Clark and René Fahr, Transferability, Mobility and Youth Training in Germany and Britain: A Simple Theoretical Analysis | 235 | ||
| Abstract | 235 | ||
| 1. Introduction | 235 | ||
| 2. Youth Training in Germany and Britain | 237 | ||
| 2.1 German Apprenticeship Training | 237 | ||
| A Historical Perspective | 239 | ||
| 2.2 Youth Training in Britain | 240 | ||
| A Historical Perspective | 241 | ||
| 3. A Simple Model of Youth Training | 242 | ||
| Related Literature | 242 | ||
| Assumption 1: Training and Matching Technologies | 245 | ||
| Assumption 2: Timing, Information and Wage Determination | 246 | ||
| Mobility | 247 | ||
| Transferability | 248 | ||
| Number of Workers Trained | 250 | ||
| 4. Discussion and Conclusions | 251 | ||
| References | 254 | ||
| Rob Euwals and Rainer Winkelmann, Mobility after Apprenticeship – Evidence from Register Data | 256 | ||
| Abstract | 256 | ||
| 1. Introduction | 256 | ||
| 2. German Apprenticeship Training (GAT) | 258 | ||
| 3. Previous literature and hypotheses | 260 | ||
| 4. Data | 262 | ||
| 5. Empirical Results | 266 | ||
| 6. Conclusion | 277 | ||
| References | 277 | ||
| Axel Werwatz, Occupational Mobility after Apprenticeship – How Effective is the German Apprenticeship System? | 279 | ||
| Abstract | 279 | ||
| 1. Introduction | 279 | ||
| 2. The Incidence of post-apprenticeship occupational mobility | 281 | ||
| The data | 282 | ||
| Occupational mobility in the Q&C data | 283 | ||
| 3. Occupational mobility, skill utilization and skill acquisition | 284 | ||
| 4. Effects of occupational mobility on labor earnings | 286 | ||
| 5. Switching regression model | 289 | ||
| 6. Conclusions | 297 | ||
| References | 297 | ||
| Appendix | 301 | ||
| A. Reduced-form multinomial logit estimates | 301 | ||
| B. Estimated average earnings differentials | 302 | ||
| C. Marginal effects | 302 | ||
| Felix Büchel and Matthias Pollmann-Schult, Overcoming a Period of Overeducated Work – Does the Quality of Apprenticeship Matter? | 304 | ||
| Abstract | 304 | ||
| 1. Introduction | 304 | ||
| 2. Data and Methods | 306 | ||
| 2.1 Database | 306 | ||
| 2.2 Measuring Overeducation | 308 | ||
| 2.3 Method of evaluation | 309 | ||
| Choice of Model | 309 | ||
| Covariates | 310 | ||
| 3. Results | 311 | ||
| 3.1 Descriptive Results | 311 | ||
| 3.2 Results from the hazard rate model | 312 | ||
| 4. Conclusions | 314 | ||
| References | 314 | ||
| Denis Fougère and Wolfgang Schwerdt, Are Apprentices Productive? | 317 | ||
| Abstract | 317 | ||
| 1. Introduction | 317 | ||
| 2. The production function | 319 | ||
| 3. Data | 321 | ||
| 4. The econometric model | 326 | ||
| 5. Estimation results | 329 | ||
| 6. Collecting the evidence | 331 | ||
| 6.1. Very small firms | 332 | ||
| 6.2. Medium-size firms | 332 | ||
| 6.3. Large firms | 333 | ||
| 7. Concluding remarks | 334 | ||
| References | 335 | ||
| Appendix A: Regional indicators | 336 | ||
| Appendix B: Parameter estimates | 338 | ||
| Appendix C: Marginal products and elasticities | 345 | ||
| Stefan C. Wolter and Jürg Schweri, The Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training: The Swiss Case | 347 | ||
| Abstract | 347 | ||
| 1. Introduction | 347 | ||
| 2. The Swiss system of apprenticeship training | 349 | ||
| 3. The cost-benefit model | 351 | ||
| 4. The data | 354 | ||
| 5. The costs and benefits of apprenticeship | 355 | ||
| 6. The apprenticeship ratio and the retention rate | 356 | ||
| 6.1 Costs, benefits, and the apprenticeship ratio | 358 | ||
| 6.2 Net cost, recruiting benefit and retention | 361 | ||
| 7. Conclusions | 363 | ||
| References | 365 | ||
| Appendix 1: Regressions for 2, 3 and 4 year term apprenticeships and the full sample | 366 | ||
| Michael Beckmann, Wage Compression and Firm-Sponsored Training in Germany: Empirical Evidence for the Acemoglu-Pischke Model from a Zero-inflated Count Data Model | 368 | ||
| Abstract | 368 | ||
| 1. Introduction | 368 | ||
| 2. The theoretical framework of the APM | 370 | ||
| 2.1 Mobility costs, asymmetric information, and firm-specific skills | 371 | ||
| 2.2 Efficiency wages and union wage setting | 372 | ||
| 3. Prior empirical work on firm-sponsored training | 373 | ||
| 4. Empirical investigation | 375 | ||
| 4.1 Data and variables | 375 | ||
| 4.2 Econometric model | 377 | ||
| 4.3 Empirical evidence | 379 | ||
| 5. Conclusion | 384 | ||
| References | 386 | ||
| Appendix A. Variables and descriptive statistics | 388 | ||
| AppendixB. Derivation of the log-likelihood function of the ZINB model | 389 |