 A Structural Model of Demand for ApprenticesSamuel Muehlemann, Jürg Schweri, Rainer Winkelmann and Stefan Wolter No 504, SOI - Working Papers from Socioeconomic Institute - University of Zurich Abstract: It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that therefore firms only train if they have the possibility to recoup these investments after the training period. A recent study using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed, however, that for 60 percent of the firms, the apprenticeship training itself does not result in net cost. In this context it seems important to examine the question whether the potential net cost of training (during the training period) are a major determinant for the demand for apprentices. Different count data models, in particular hurdle models, are used to estimate the effect of net cost on the demand for apprentices. The results show that the net cost have a significant impact on the training decision but no significant influence on the demand for apprentices, once the firm has decided to train. For policy purposes, these results indicate that subsidies for firms that already train apprentices would not boost the demand for apprentices. Keywords: Apprenticeship training; count data; probit-Poisson-log-normal model; Switzerland (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Labour 21(3), pp. 419�441, 2007 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:soz:wpaper:0504 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in SOI - Working Papers from Socioeconomic Institute - University of Zurich Contact information at EDIRC. |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.