Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110736 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9006
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
apprenticeship training
job mobility
occupational mobility
wages
JEL: 
J62
J24
J30
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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