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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Poaching and Firm-Sponsored Training |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Swiss Leading House "Economics of Education" Working Paper |
| Number | 51 |
| Number of Pages | 25 |
| Date | 2017 |
| Abstract Text | A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training like apprenticeship training in Germany. Empirically however, the existence and extent of poaching still remains an open question. We provide a novel empirical strategy to identify poaching and investigate its causes and consequences. We find that only a few apprenticeship training firms in Germany are poaching victims or raiders. Poaching victim firms are more likely to be in a temporary downturn and raiding firms are more likely to increase their workforce. Poaching victims hardly change their training strategy after poaching. Thus, poaching is a transitory event and not a general threat to apprenticeship training. This is an important result for countries that intend to introduce apprenticeship type of training and need to convince firms to participate in their endeavour. |
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| Official URL | http://repec.business.uzh.ch/RePEc/iso/leadinghouse/0051_lhwpaper.pdf |
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| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:3642 |
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