. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start … immediately after leaving school, but were unsuccessful in finding a position. Our analysis is based on rich survey data that has … been collected specifically for this study. Using this data, we describe the characteristics of school leavers who have …

In Germany, the entry into the labor market for students in the nonacademic tracks of secondary schools may take … multiple pathways. Students graduating from lower track secondary schools (LTSS) face major problems in school …-towork transitions, prompting the provision of intensive career guidance in school. In a case study for the City of Freiburg, this paper …

Over the 2000s, many federal states in Germany shortened the duration of secondary school by one year while keeping the …

probability of becoming an educational dropout. The wage gap between dropouts and those with completed school and professional …

welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might … ; decomposition ; matching ; Germany …

In 2003, Germany moved from a system in which participants in training programs for the unemployed are assigned by …

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio …-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we … examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both, better school grades and higher noncognitive skills reduce the risk to become …

after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany …

Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training …