Arbeitspapier

Size of Training Firms: The Role of Firms, Luck, and Ability in Young Workers' Careers

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via differences in training quality and in the availability of internal labor markets, and that the access to large training firms depends positively on young workers' ability and their luck to live in a region with many large and medium-sized training firms. We test these hypotheses empirically by using a large administrative data set for Germany and find corroborative evidence.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9806

Classification
Wirtschaft
Firm Behavior: Theory
Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: General
Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
Entrepreneurship
Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: Other
New Firms; Startups
Subject
unemployment
training
apprenticeship
young workers
mobility
firm size

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Müller, Steffen
Neubäumer, Renate
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2016

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Müller, Steffen
  • Neubäumer, Renate
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2016

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