Harald Pfeifer

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Harald Pfeifer graduated from Maastricht University, where he also obtained his PhD in 2013. Since 2018, he holds the chair of “Economics of Vocational Education and Training” at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at Maastricht University. He is also head of Section “Ökonomie der Berufsbildung” at the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) in Bonn, Germany.

Harald Pfeifer works on topics in the fields of education economics, industrial relations, personnel economics and labour economics. He is also affiliated with the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in Adelaide, Australia.

Harald Pfeifer joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2021.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16919
The Impact of Hiring Costs for Skilled Workers on Apprenticeship Training: A Comparative Study
Manuel Aepli, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Jürg Schweri, Felix Wenzelmann, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16652
How Negative Labor Supply Shocks Affect Training in Firms: Lessons from Opening the Swiss-German Border
Caroline Neuber-Pohl, Damiano Pregaldini, Uschi Backes-Gellner, Sandra Dummert, Harald Pfeifer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15043
Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Training Investments
Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Harald Pfeifer, Arne Uhlendorff, Caroline Wehner
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104616
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13733
Do Recruiters Select Workers with Different Personality Traits for Different Tasks? A Discrete Choice Experiment
Caroline Wehner, Andries de Grip, Harald Pfeifer
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102186
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13368
The Effect of Business Cycle Expectations on the German Apprenticeship Market: Estimating the Impact of COVID-19
Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Bernhard Wittek
published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2020, 12, Article 8 (2020)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11264
The Effects of Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeships: Evidence from a German High School Reform
Samuel Mühlemann, Gerard A. Pfann, Harald Pfeifer, Hans Dietrich
published as 'Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeship Training' in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 86, 102197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7656
The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer
published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55 (2), 193–218
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6497
Works Councils, Collective Bargaining and Apprenticeship Training
Ben Kriechel, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Miriam Schuette
published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 66 (5), 1095-1112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3465
Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training: A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland
Regina Dionisius, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Günter Walden, Felix Wenzelmann, Stefan C. Wolter
published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55(1), 7-36
IZA World of Labor Article
Evaluating apprenticeship training programs for firms
Harald Pfeifer, Samuel Mühlemann
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