The objective of this paper is to evaluate the Brazilian Apprenticeship program (Lei do Aprendiz). This program is a youth-targeted ALMP that has been adopted at a large scale since 2000 in Brazil. The program concedes payroll subsidies to firms that hire and train young workers under special...

In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of smaller birth cohorts and an increasing proportion of school leavers aiming for higher education. This paper investigates whether a programme that supports firms to train...

Das Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen hat zwischen 1994 bis 1999 verschiedene Arbeitsmarktprogramme aufgelegt, um besonders benachteiligte Gruppen möglichst dauerhaft in den Arbeitsmarkt zu (re-)integrieren. Die Umsetzung von drei dieser zielgruppenorientierten Programme hat das Institut Arbeit...