Which firms train disadvantaged youth?

Jens Mohrenweiser

No 87, Economics of Education Working Paper Series from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW)

Abstract: The integration of disadvantaged youth into the labour market is a challenging policy issue. Since young people gain most from work experience and learning provided by firms, hence within apprenticeships, firms play a crucial role in training disadvantaged youths. Knowing firm characteristics that moderate the selection of firms in such training schemes might help to design more effective and efficient policy measures. This paper estimates the determinants of firms that participate in a training programme for disadvantaged youth in Germany. The paper shows that firms with greater training capacity in terms of full-time instructors and own training facilities and firms willing to invest own additional resources in the training of disadvantaged youth are more likely to participate in this training scheme. On the contrary, firm size, an increasing demand for skilled workers and difficulties in finding apprentices do not influence the participation.

Keywords: disadvantaged youth; apprenticeship; policy evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 M51 M53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2013-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-lma
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