register data - the IAB Employment Sample - we find that apprentices staying with their training firm after graduation have … longer first-job durations but not higher wages than apprentices leaving the training firm. Retention rates, first job …

net cost of training (during the training period) are a major determinant for the demand for apprentices. Different count … data models, in particular hurdle models, are used to estimate the effect of net cost on the demand for apprentices. The … for apprentices, once the firm has decided to train. For policy purposes, these results indicate that subsidies for firms …