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Geel, Regula; Mure, Johannes; Backes-Gellner, Uschi – Education Economics, 2011
According to standard human capital theory, firm-financed training cannot be explained if the skills obtained are general in nature. Nevertheless, in German-speaking countries, firms invest heavily in apprenticeship training although the skills are assumed to be general. In our paper, we study the extent to which apprenticeship training is general…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Capital, Job Training, Probability