Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and … thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut their apprenticeship expenditures during … that economic shocks induce a rather small, pro-cyclical immediate response in the apprenticeship market. However, within a …

In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of …

Although apprenticeship training has been praised for its effectiveness in smoothing the school-to-work transition of … apprenticeship training students with non-apprentices within educational track using a rich database and a unique set of observable …

on the transition from apprenticeship training to a first job. In doing so, we first investigate transitions to regular …