The costs of standardized apprenticeship curricula for training firms

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 7 Descriptive statistics by curriculum misfit

	Content not used\(\le 10\)				Content not used\(>10\)
	Additional skills		Additional skills		Additional skills		Additional skills
	Mean	s.d.	Mean	s.d.	Mean	s.d.	Mean	s.d.
(a) Cost and benefits of training, in CHF
Gross costs	28,804	10,622	30,200	10,771	30,698	11,447	31,571	12,551
Productive output	32,600	9431	30,762	9923	31,906	9779	29,254	10,470
Net benefit	3795	13,209	562	13,775	1209	14,527	\(-\)2317	16,443
(b) Selected firm characteristics
Firm size
1\(-\)9 Employees	0.461	0.499	0.502	0.501	0.435	0.496	0.502	0.501
10\(-\)49 Employees	0.407	0.491	0.306	0.462	0.427	0.495	0.355	0.479
50\(-\)99 Employees	0.061	0.240	0.074	0.262	0.067	0.250	0.067	0.251
\(>100\) Employees	0.070	0.255	0.118	0.323	0.071	0.257	0.076	0.266
Member of prof. association (yes = 1)	0.468	0.499	0.490	0.501	0.320	0.467	0.486	0.501
Attractiveness for specialists (yes = 1)	0.727	0.446	0.780	0.415	0.685	0.465	0.757	0.430
Affected by digitalization (yes = 1)	0.443	0.497	0.455	0.499	0.411	0.492	0.480	0.501
Efficiency of production (yes = 1)	0.740	0.439	0.698	0.460	0.655	0.476	0.699	0.459
Demand good (yes = 1)	0.575	0.494	0.676	0.469	0.580	0.494	0.585	0.494
(c) Apprenticeship characteristics
Share voc. baccalaureate	0.067	0.227	0.080	0.218	0.078	0.233	0.088	0.242
Share adult	0.040	0.173	0.059	0.206	0.051	0.200	0.061	0.200
Share short-apprenticeship	0.040	0.179	0.079	0.247	0.050	0.194	0.069	0.229
Share female	0.368	0.452	0.440	0.433	0.393	0.454	0.425	0.464
Observations	1731		244		1866		262

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 to the question. Gross costs and productive outputs are firm averages per apprentice and year. Apprentice characteristics show the size of the respective group as a share of all apprentices in the company