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Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System
Author(s) -
Leiser Mirjam Strupler,
Wolter Stefan C.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/labr.12089
Subject(s) - apprenticeship , procurement , business , training (meteorology) , quality (philosophy) , empirical evidence , affect (linguistics) , public policy , panel data , industrial organization , marketing , labour economics , economics , economic growth , econometrics , philosophy , linguistics , physics , epistemology , meteorology
In this paper, we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this social procurement policy on a firm's training participation, training intensity, and training quality using information from a representative and large firm survey. The results show that the policy increases the number of training firms, and does not affect training quality negatively. However, the effect is limited in size, as only small firms and firms operating in sectors where public procurement represents a large share of the business, are affected positively.