This paper provides an overview of the available information concerning selected policy instruments intended to promote employer-provided training, including the stated rationale and objectives, the target groups and operational design as well as a at a summary of the evaluative evidence...

"In Germany the aim to provide young people with sufficient training places meets with great approval. The realisation of this aim is, however, in danger at present. The number of companies providing training and the number of training places available have fallen considerably in the last ten...