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• Publications // 14.11.2024

  Refereed Journal - The Effect of Workplace vs School-Based Vocational Education on Youth Unemployment: Evidence from France

  impact on employment comes from retaining apprentices within their training company, while the productivity gap compared to vocational students remains minimal when the same skills can be acquired through [...] exhibit little preference when deciding whom to invite for job interviews: unemployed apprentices or vocational students, both of whom have earned the same diploma. By merging the results of this experiment [...] with a search and matching model which accounts for the selection of apprentices retained by their training firms, we provide a framework to understand the ways in which apprenticeship influences youth employment
• Publications // 14.10.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - No Teens, No Tech: How Shortages of Young Workers Hinder Firm Technology Investments

  increasing shortages of young workers. This paper studies the importance of young workers, particularly vocational trainees, for firm technology investments. Leveraging exogenous variation in trainee supply caused [...] and new technologies. Consistent with firms’ lower opportunity costs and higher returns to training young workers than incumbents, the effect is driven by firms exposed to new tech skills. These findings
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  News // 22.08.2024

  A Head Start through Youth? How Apprentices Modernise Companies

  Additionally, she and podcast host Bastian Thüne discuss the state of the dual vocational training system and why companies train more effectively for the labour market than universities do. - [...] Every August, vocational training programmes begin in Germany. However, fewer and fewer school leavers are opting for an apprenticeship. In addition to the declining birth rate, the increasing trend towards
• Publications // 18.06.2024

  ZEW Discussion Paper - Expertise at Work: New Technologies, New Skills, and Worker Impacts

  new digital technology reshapes vocational training and skill acquisition and its impact on workers’ careers. We construct a novel database of legally binding training curricula and changes therein [...] therein, spanning the near universe of vocational training in Germany over five decades, and link curriculum updates to breakthrough technologies using Natural Language Processing techniques. Our findings reveal [...] reveal that technological advances drive training updates, with curriculum content evolving towards less routine intensive tasks, and greater use of digital and social skills. Using administrative emplo
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  Press Releases // 20.03.2024

  University Degrees Continue to Pay Off – Apprenticeships Regain Appeal

  today, even though the wage gaps between academic and vocational qualifications have been narrowing for some time. This trend is making vocational professions more attractive again, as revealed by a study [...] s illustrate how the wage gaps between individuals with university degrees and those with vocational training have evolved separately for women and men from 1996 to 2021, using data from the Socio-Economic [...] graduates has only slightly increased. At the same time, the wage gap with individuals holding vocational qualifications has decreased, reaching mid-90s levels for women. This is the period when the wage
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  Press Releases // 19.03.2024

  Certain Population Groups Have Insufficient Financial Knowledge

  financial literacy questions. In contrast, those who did not finish secondary education or vocational training (37 per cent), women (55 per cent) as well as East Germans (55 per cent) demonstrate below-average
• Events // 27.04.2023

  Macroeconomic Effects of Active Labour Market Policies A Novel Instrumental Variables Approach

  this market. The authors find no effects of short-term activation measures and further vocational training on aggregate labour market outcomes. In contrast, wage subsidies substantially increase the
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  News // 07.11.2022

  TASKS VI Conference on the Digital and Ecological Transformation of the Labour Market

  al TASKS conference, a joint conference by ZEW Mannheim, the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). - The labour market undergoes
• Publications // 10.10.2022

  Refereed Journal - The Evolution of Educational Wage Differentials for Women and Men in Germany, from 1996 to 2019

  certificate. The educational reference category is a standard degree within the German vocational education and training system. Based on samples of male and female workers from the Socio-Economic Panel Study
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  Press Releases // 06.12.2021

  University Dropout Generates Negative Returns for Public Budgets and the Students Concerned

  about one in six drops out of a master’s programme. Although many of those affected start vocational training after dropping out, the time spent at university has negative financial consequences both for [...] negative business for public budgets: Compared to high school graduates who go straight into vocational training, the government expenditure for dropouts exceeds the expected income from taxes and other levies [...] alternatives to studying at university can help encourage high school graduates to pursue vocational training who would otherwise likely leave university without a degree. In addition, it is helpful to