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Employment polarization and the role of the apprenticeship system
- Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This paper studies the effect of apprenticeship training on technology adoption and labor market polarization. A stylized model with two key features is developed: (1) apprentices are more productive due to industry-specific training, but (2) from the firm׳s perspective, when training apprentices, technological innovation is costly since training becomes obsolete. Thus, apprentices correlate with slower adoption of skill-replacing technologies, but also less employment polarization. We test this hypothesis on German regions given local variation in apprenticeship systems until 1976. The results show little computer adoption and no employment polarization related to apprentices, but similar displacement of non-apprentices by computers as in the US.
- Subjects :
- UBS UBS Center Working Paper Series
Engineering
Labour economics
050204 development studies
J24
2002 Economics and Econometrics
R23
jel:E24
German
Innovationsbereitschaft
jel:I24
10007 Department of Economics
Economics
050207 economics
Stylized fact
05 social sciences
050209 industrial relations
Apprentices
technology adoption
Test (assessment)
330 Economics
Lehrling
2003 Finance
8. Economic growth
language
E24
employment polarization
Economics and Econometrics
I24
jel:J62
jel:J24
ECON Department of Economics
educational system
0502 economics and business
ddc:330
jel:R23
Apprentices, educational system, employment polarization, technology adoption
Innovation
O33
business.industry
Polarization (politics)
Key features
Local variation
language.human_language
Berufsausbildung
jel:O33
J62
11198 UBS Center for Economics in Society
Apprenticeship
business
Finance
Educational systems
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f817ae25f78f6bf144c72b01d34e1ff2