Apprenticeship varies greatly across countries, in terms of both quantity (numbers trained)
and quality (skill content); and across sectors and occupations within countries, in terms of its …

This paper uses an original dataset from a survey conducted in Switzerland in 2007 to explore
the dynamics of education policy preferences. This issue has largely been neglected in …

Wage expectations can play a significant role in a variety of economic areas. This study
analyses the wage expectations of students who are on the verge of making a decision …

This paper investigates the fitness-for-purpose and soundness of bibliometric parameters for
measuring and elucidating the research performance of individual researchers in the field …

… We are particularly grateful to Stefan Denzler of the SKBF for his assistance in processing
and revising the dataset. We also thank two anonymous referees and the Editor for their …

The latest study investigating the cost–benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss
companies has shown that most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their …

Willingness to compete has been found to predict individual and gender differences in
educational choices and labor market outcomes. We provide further evidence for this relationship …

For the first time it has been made possible to merge a German and a Swiss firm-level data
set that include detailed information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. …

Building on earlier work that explored within-student variation in hours of instruction across
school subjects, we investigate the impact of instruction time on student test scores in …

Empirical research has given cause to fear that the demographic ageing in industrialized
countries is likely to exert a negative impact on educational spending. Although this line of …