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Table 1 Descriptive statistics, main variables

From: The costs of standardized apprenticeship curricula for training firms

 

Mean

s.d.

Min.

Max.

N

(a) Measures of curriculum (mis)fit

 Content not used

0.170

0.148

0

0.75

4152

 Additional skills (yes \(=\) 1)

0.109

0.311

0

1

4152

(b) Costs and benefits of training, in CHF

 Gross costs

29,886

11,156

6399

106,797

4152

  Productive output

31,989

9698

0

82,411

4152

  Net benefit

2,103

14,112

\(-76,521\)

58,558

4152

(c) Selected firm-level characteristics

  Firm size

   1–9 Employees

0.452

0.498

0

1

4152

  10–49 Employees

0.409

0.492

0

1

4152

   50–99 Employees

0.066

0.248

0

1

4152

   >100 Employees

0.074

0.261

0

1

4152

  Member of professional association (yes \(=\) 1)

0.397

0.489

0

1

4142

  Efficiency of production (yes \(=\) 1)

0.674

0.469

0

1

4130

  Attractiveness for specialists (yes \(=\) 1)

0.735

0.442

0

1

4131

 Affected by digitalization (yes \(=\) 1)

0.421

0.494

0

1

4138

 Demand good (yes \(=\) 1)

0.594

0.491

0

1

4138

(d) Apprentice characteristics

  Share vocational baccalaureate

0.074

0.232

0

1

4152

  Share adult

0.047

0.189

0

1

4152

  Share short-apprenticeship

0.048

0.193

0

1

4152

  Share female

0.387

0.452

0

1

4152

  1. All results are weighted with sampling weights. The dummies for efficiency, attractiveness, and digitalization are all one for firms reporting “very” or “rather” in the respective question and zero otherwise. The lower number of observations among these dummies stem from missing answers on the respective question. Gross costs and productive outputs are firm averages per apprentice and year. Apprentice characteristics show the share of the respective group relative to the total of all apprentices in the company