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209: "This time it's different" Generative Artificial Intelligence and Occupational Choice

Daniel Goller, Christian Gschwendt and Stefan C. Wolter

208: Reaching for gold! The impact of a positive reputation shock on career choice

Daniel Goller and Stefan C. Wolter

207: Countering Gender-Typicality in Occupational Choices: An Information Intervention Targeted at Adolescents

Patricia Palffy, Patrick Lehnert and Uschi Backes-Gellner

206: A, B, or C? Question Format and the Gender Gap in Financial Literacy

Maddalena Davoli

205: Curriculum Updates in Vocational Education and Changes in Graduates' Skills and Wages

Andreas F. Buehler, Patrick Lehnert and Uschi Backes-Gellner

204: Opening doors for immigrants: The importance of occupational and workplace-based cultural skills for successful labor market entry

Chiara Zisler, Damiano Pregaldini and Uschi Backes-Gellner

203: How negative labor supply shocks affect training in firms: Lessons from opening the Swiss-German border

Caroline Neuber-Pohl, Damiano Pregaldini, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Sandra Dummert and Harald Pfeifer

202: The employment effects of raising negotiated minimum wages for apprentices

Carolin Links, Caroline Neuber-Pohl and Harald Pfeifer

201: Does Ethnic Diversity in Schools Affect Occupational Choices?

Damiano Pregaldini, Simone Balestra and Uschi Backes-Gellner

200: Berufliche Bildung als Innovationstreiber: Ein lange vernachlässigtes Forschungsfeld

Uschi Backes-Gellner and Patrick Lehnert

199: Central Exams and Adult Skills: Evidence from PIAAC

Lisa Leschnig, Guido Schwerdt and Katarina Zigova

198: The response of public education spending to changes in student cohort sizes

Samuel Luethi and Maria Zumbuehl

197: What wages do people expect for vocational and academic education backgrounds in Switzerland?

Maria A. Cattaneo

196: "The double-dividend of training" - Labour market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland

Stefan Denzler, Jens Ruhose and Stefan Wolter

195: Much ado about nothing? School Curriculum Reforms and Students' Educational Trajectories

Maurizio Strazzeri, Chantal Oggenfuss and Stefan Wolter

194: Apprenticeships

Uschi Backes-Gellner and Patrick Lehnert

193: How Middle-Skilled Workers Adjust to Immigration: The Role of Occupational Skill Specificity

Damiano Pregaldini and Uschi Backes-Gellner

192: The Role of Occupational Skill Sets in the Digital Transformation: How IT Progress Shapes Returns to Specialization and Social Skills

Fabienne Kiener, Christian Eggenberger and Uschi Backes-Gellner

191: Is Technological Change Really Skills-Biased? Firm-level Evidence of the Complementarities between ICT and Workers' Education

Thomas Bolli and Filippo Pusterla

190: Sitting next to a dropout: Study success of students with peers that came to the lecture hall by a different route

Daniel Goller, Andrea Diem and Stefan Wolter

189: The Earth is Not Flat: A New World of High-Dimensional Peer Effects

Aurélien Sallin and Simone Balestra

188: Different degrees of skill obsolescence across hard and soft skills and the role of lifelong learning for labor market outcomes

Tobias Schultheiss and Uschi Backes-Gellner

187: The Role of Fields of Study for the Effects of Higher Education Institutions on Regional Firm Location

Tobias Schlegel and Uschi Backes-Gellner

186: Train drain? Access to skilled foreign workers and firms' provision of training

Maria Esther Oswald-Egg and Michael Siegenthaler

185: Is being competitive always an advantage? Degrees of competitiveness, gender, and premature work contract termination

Samuel Luethi and Stefan Wolter

184: The consequences of EU eastern enlargement on human capital accumulation and wages in Germany

Bernhard H. Wittek and Samuel Muehlemann

183: Social Norms and Gendered Occupational Choices of Men and Women: Time to Turn the Tide?

Patricia Palffy, Patrick Lehnert and Uschi Backes-Gellner

182: "Too shocked to search" The COVID-19 shutdowns' impact on the search for apprenticeships

Daniel Goller and Stefan Wolter

181: "Against all odds" Does awareness of the risk of failure matter for educational choices?

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo and Stefan Wolter

180: Insights into the Economic Benefits of VPET for Individuals: Theoretical and Empirical Results for Researchers and Practitioners

Uschi Backes-Gellner

179: Open Labor Markets and Firms' Substitution between Training Apprentices and Hiring Workers

Manuel Aepli and Andreas Kuhn

178: Brain Drain from Vocational to Academic Education at Upper-Secondary Level? An Empirical Analysis for Switzerland

Katharina Jaik

177: The Contribution of Vocational Education and Training to Innovation and Growth

Uschi Backes-Gellner and Patrick Lehnert

176: Beyond Windfall Gains: The Redistribution of Apprenticeship Costs and Vocational Education of Care Workers

Eric Schuss

175: Noncognitive Skills in Training Curricula and Nonlinear Wage Returns

Fabienne Kiener, Ann-Sophie Gnehm and Uschi Backes-Gellner

174: The Importance of Proportional and Fixed Hiring Costs in Search and Matching Models

Mehrab Kiarsi and Samuel Muehlemann

173: Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? Evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland

Tobias Schultheiss and Uschi Backes-Gellner

172: IT Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations

Christian Eggenberger and Uschi Backes-Gellner

171: The effect of business cycle expectations on the German apprenticeship market: Estimating the impact of Covid-19

Samuel Muehlemann, Harald Pfeifer and Bernhard Wittek

170: High-Ability Influencers? The Heterogeneous Effects of Gifted Classmates

Simone Balestra, Aurelien Sallin and Stefan Wolter

169: Private tutoring and academic achievement in a selective education system

Maria Zumbuehl, Stefanie Hof and Stefan Wolter

168: Investigating the image deficit of VET: occupational prestige ranking depending on the educational requirements and the skill content of occupations

Aurelien Abrassart and Stefan Wolter

167: The Benefits of Adult Learning: Work-Related Training, Social Capital, and Earnings

Jens Ruhose, Stephan Thomsen and Insa Weilage

166: Tertiary Education Expansion and Regional Firm Development

Tobias Schlegel, Curdin Pfister and Uschi Backes-Gellner

165: Proxying Economic Activity with Daytime Satellite Imagery: Filling Data Gaps Across Time and Space

Patrick Lehnert, Michael Niederberger, Uschi Backes-Gellner and Eric Bettinger

164: Innovation Effects and Knowledge Complementarities in a Diverse Research Landscape

Patrick Lehnert, Curdin Pfister, Dietmar Harhoff and Uschi Backes-Gellner

163: Information Provision and Preferences for Education Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments in Three Countries

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Philipp Lergetporer, Guido Schwerdt, Katharina Werner, Ludger Woessmann and Stefan Wolter

162: Competition, Institutions and Company-sponsored Training

Tina Hinz and Jens Mohrenweiser

161: Innovation Effects of Universities of Applied Sciences: an Assessment of Regional Heterogeneity

Tobias Schlegel, Curdin Pfister, Dietmar Harhoff and Uschi Backes-Gellner

160: Horizontal Mismatch and Vocational Education

Jürg Schweri, Annina Eymann and Manuel Aepli