This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We … start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via … differences in training quality and in the availability of internal labor markets, and that the access to large training firms …

This paper analyzes how life-cycle unemployment of former apprentices depends on the size of the training firm. We … start from the hypotheses that the size of training firms reduces long-run cumulated unemployment exposure, e.g. via … differences in training quality and in the availability of internal labor markets, and that the access to large training firms …

This paper examines the effects of a government-sponsored apprenticeship training program designed to address high … of apprenticeship training on labor market outcomes. The results show that apprenticeships shift youth out of wage work … short run. In addition, the study uses the randomized match between apprentices and training providers to examine the causal …

training programmes (VET). We therefore investigate how the share of three upper secondary education programmes, i.e. general …

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

measured by the number of youth not in employment, education or training (NEET) in percent of the total youth population. Korea … education and vocational training systems that emphasise middle level and market oriented skills are identified as institutional …