Apprentice pay in Britain, Germany and Switzerland: Institutions, market forces and market power
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Authors
Ryan, P
Backes-Gellner, U
Teuber, S
Wagner, K
Abstract
The pay of metalworking apprentices is high in Britain, middling in Germany and low in Switzerland. We analyse these differences using fieldwork evidence and survey data, drawing on both economic and institutionalist theories. Several institutional attributes influence apprentice pay, partly by affecting supply and demand in markets for training places. Institutional support for apprenticeship training appears to involve important complementarities in both Germany and Switzerland, in contrast to Britain’s less coherent and more market-driven approach.
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This is the accepted version of the original publication in the European Journal of Industrial Relations, which is available online at http://ejd.sagepub.com/content/19/3/201.
Keywords
38 Economics, 3801 Applied Economics, 44 Human Society, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
Journal Title
European Journal of Industrial Relations
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Journal ISSN
0959-6801
1461-7129
1461-7129
Volume Title
19
Publisher
SAGE Publications
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Sponsorship
We thank the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Anglo-German Foundation, SKOPE (Oxford), the Swiss federal government (OPET/SERI) and WZB (Berlin) for financial support.