The financing of apprenticeship training in the light of labor market regulations

Samuel Muehlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Günter Walden, Felix Wenzelmann and Stefan Wolter

Labour Economics, 2010, vol. 17, issue 5, 799-809

Abstract: In this paper we analyze the training behavior of firms in Germany and Switzerland -- two countries with a comparable apprenticeship system but strong differences in the regulation of their respective labor markets. We make use of two representative firm-level surveys on the provision of apprenticeship training to analyze differences in the costs and benefits of training and the firm's training decision. Our results suggest that firms are more likely to make a substantial (short-term) net investment in apprenticeship training in the presence of strong employment protection laws.

Keywords: Labor; market; regulations; Apprenticeship; training; Firm's; training; decision (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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