Economics of Education Working Paper Series

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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

159: IT skills in vocational training curricula and labour market outcomes

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

158: The Value of Specific Skills under Shock: High Risks and High Returns

Christian Eggenberger, Simon Janssen and Uschi Backes-Gellner

157: Local Norms Describing the Role of the State and the Private Provision of Training

Andreas Kuhn, Jürg Schweri and Stefan Wolter

156: Populist Manipulation or Personal Beliefs? A Study of the Divergent Perceptions of the Social Order in Switzerland

Aurelien Abrassart and Stefan Wolter

155: Training in the Great Recession - Evidence from an Individual Perspective

Daniel Dietz and Thomas Zwick

154: Education expansion and high-skill job opportunities for workers: Does a rising tide lift all boats?

Tobias Schultheiss, Curdin Pfister, Ann-Sophie Gnehm and Uschi Backes-Gellner

153: Wages and employment: The role of occupational skills

Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Miriam Rinawi and Matthias Krapf

152: Girls' preferences for STEM and the effects of classroom gender composition: new evidence from a natural experiment

Damiano Pregaldini, Uschi Backes-Gellner and Gerald Eisenkopf

151: The Strength of Gender Norms and Gender-Stereotypical Occupational Aspirations Among Adolescents

Andreas Kuhn and Stefan Wolter

150: Modernization of Vocational Training Curricula and Technology Adoption in Firms: A Descriptive Analysis with German Data

Christian Eggenberger, Simon Janssen and Uschi Backes-Gellner

149: From Dreams to Reality: Market Forces and Changes from Occupational Intention to Occupational Choice

Katharina Jaik and Stefan Wolter

148: Parental Involvement and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Preferences and Attitudes

Maria Zumbuehl, Thomas Dohmen and Gerard Pfann

147: Gender, competitiveness and study choices in high school - evidence from Switzerland

Thomas Buser, Noemi Peter and Stefan Wolter

146: Are Apprenticeships Business Cycle Proof?

Samuel Luethi and Stefan Wolter

145: How do apprentices moderate the influence of organizational innovation on the technological innovation process?

Christian Rupietta, Johannes Meuer and Uschi Backes-Gellner

144: Do Preferences and Biases predict Life Outcomes? Evidence from Education and Labor Market Entry Decisions

Uschi Backes-Gellner, Holger Herz, Michael Kosfeld and Yvonne Oswald

143: Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeship Training

Samuel Muehlemann, Gerard Pfann, Harald Pfeifer and Hans Dietrich

142: The Relative Importance of Personal Characteristics for the Hiring of Young Workers

Peter Hoeschler and Uschi Backes-Gellner

141: Employment of R&D personnel after an educational supply shock: Effects of the introduction of Universities of Applied Sciences in Switzerland

Patrick Lehnert, Curdin Pfister and Uschi Backes-Gellner

140: Fix the Game, Not the Dame: Restoring Equity in Leadership Evaluations

Jamie Gloor, Manuela C. Morf, Samantha Paustian-Underdahl and Uschi Backes-Gellner

139: The native-migrant gap in the progression into and through upper-secondary education

Stefan Wolter and Maria Zumbuehl