Arbeitspapier

Mobility across Firms and Occupations among Graduates from Apprenticeship

Distinguishing carefully between mobility across firms and across occupations, this study provides causal estimates of the wage effects of mobility among graduates from apprenticeship in Germany. Our instrumental variables approach exploits variation in regional labor market characteristics. Pure firm changes and occupation-and-job changes after graduation from apprenticeship result in average wage losses, whereas an occupation change within the training firm results in persistent wage gains. For the majority of cases a change of occupation involves a career progression. In contrast, for job switches the wage loss dominates.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9006

Classification
Wirtschaft
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Subject
apprenticeship training
job mobility
occupational mobility
wages

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Fitzenberger, Bernd
Licklederer, Stefanie
Zwiener, Hanna
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2015

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Fitzenberger, Bernd
  • Licklederer, Stefanie
  • Zwiener, Hanna
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2015

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