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Is Technological Change Really Skills-Biased? Firm-level Evidence of the Complementarities between ICT and Workers’ Education
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Valuable experience: How internships affect university graduates’ income
(2019)KOF Working PapersThis paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address endogeneity with an IV approach that exploits information regarding whether the internship was a mandatory component of the study. We further address selection into programs with mandatory internship by using the share of mandatory internships at the closest university, exploiting the low mobility of Swiss students. The results ...Working Paper -
Has the relationship between formal education and the formal employment sector in Nepal changed between 1995 and 2014?
(2019)KOF Working PapersThis paper analyses the relationship between formal education and the formal employment sector in Nepal. The analysis of several individual-level surveys between 1995 and 2014 shows that completed tertiary education increases the probability to be wage-employed in the non- agricultural sector, while primary and secondary education has little relationship With wage- employment. However, primary, secondary and tertiary education all ...Working Paper -
The Social Status of Vocational Education and Training in Switzerland
(2019)KOF Working PapersThis paper analyses how the social status of vocational education and training (VET) in Switzerland has changed over time and how it differs across population groups. The applied measure for the social status of VET compares the cognitive abilities (measured by PISA scores) of prospective students in a VET programme to those in an academic baccalaureate programme. The results suggest that the social status of VET has remained constant ...Working Paper -
Complementarities among Types of Education in Affecting Firms' Productivity
(2018)KOF Working PapersThis paper uses Swiss firm-level panel data to estimate how complementarities among workers with different types of education affect firms' productivity. We subdivide workers by education into four groups: no post-secondary education, upper secondary vocational education and training (VET), tertiary professional education, and tertiary academic education. To account for possible endogeneity, we exploit within-firm variation and employ a ...Working Paper -
Evaluating the Impact of Employment Protection on Firm-Provided Training in an RDD Framework
(2017)KOF Working PapersThis paper tests the hypothesis that employment protection legislation (EPL) increases the incentives of firms to train their employees. The identification strategy uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits exemptions of small firms from EPL. Using firm-level data from Finland and Italy in 2005 and 2010, we do not find empirical evidence that EPL increases the propensity to train or the intensity of firm-provided ...Working Paper -
Meet the need – The role of vocational education and training for the youth labour market
(2017)KOF Working PapersTo fight negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world foster vocational education and training programmes (VET). We therefore investigate how the share of three upper secondary education programmes, i.e. general education, school-based VET, and dual VET, affect the labour market of 15- to 24-year-olds. We complement the existing literature by analysing non-linear effects that might arise due to general equilibrium ...Working Paper -
Measuring the Social Status of Education Programmes: Applying a New Measurement to Dual Vocational Education and Training in Switzerland
(2016)KOF Working PapersThis paper proposes a new approach to measuring changes in the social status of education programmes, a type of social status that the literature has greatly neglected so far. We focus on the dual Vocational Education and Training (dual VET) system in Switzerland, which has recently received substantial attention across Europe. We argue that, holding everything else constant, a change in the relative ability of students in an education ...Working Paper -
Vertical Educational Diversity and Innovation Performance
(2015)KOF Working PapersThis paper uses panel data of Swiss firms to analyze the impact of education?level diversity in the workforce on innovation performance, addressing endogeneity by exploiting within?firm variation as well as variation in labor supply across regions. We find that vertical educational diversity increases the extensive margin of R&D and product innovation, particularly new product innovation. However, the relationship with process innovation, ...Working Paper -
Comparative Advantages of School and Workplace Environment in Competence Acquisition: Empirical Evidence From a Survey Among Professional Tertiary Education and Training Students in Switzerland
(2015)KOF Working PapersThis paper sheds light on the questions how important competences are and which competences can best be learned at school and which competences can be acquired better in the workplace. Exploiting data from a survey among professional tertiary education and training business administration students and their employers in Switzerland, we find that competences related to strategic management, human resource management, organizational design ...Working Paper