Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/155317
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 17-013
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
A number of studies have found that firms provide less training if they are located in regions with strong labor market competition. This finding is usually interpreted as evidence of a higher risk of poaching in these regions. Yet, there is no direct evidence that regional competition is positively correlated with poaching. Building on a recently established approach to ex-post identify poaching of apprenticeship completers, our paper is the first to directly investigate the correlation between regional labor market competition and poaching. Using German adminis-trative data, we find that competition indeed increases training establishments' probability of becoming poaching victims. However, poaching victims do not change their apprenticeship training activity in reaction to past poaching. Instead, our findings indicate that the lower training activity in competitive regions can be attributed to lower retention rates, a less adverse selection, and lower labor and hiring costs of apprenticeship completers hired from rivals.
Subjects: 
poaching
firm-sponsored training
apprenticeship
regional labor markets
labor market competition
JEL: 
J24
M51
M53
R23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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