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Mobility across firms and occupations among graduates from apprenticeship

Bernd Fitzenberger, Stefanie Licklederer and Hanna Zwiener

Labour Economics, 2015, vol. 34, issue C, 138-151

Abstract: Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics. Pure firm changes and occupation-and-job changes after graduation from apprenticeship result in average wage losses, whereas an occupation change within the training firm results in persistent wage gains. For the majority of cases a change of occupation involves a career progression. In contrast, for job switches the loss of firm-specific human capital seems to dominate.

Keywords: Apprenticeship training; Job mobility; Occupational mobility; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J30 J31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2015.03.008

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