Germany is widely known for its high-quality vocational education and training (VET) system. The two key features of that system are (a) firm-based training programs accompanied by a schoolbased component (of one to two days per week), in which apprentices acquire upper secondary general...

Das Projekt versteht sich als ein kritischer Beitrag zur Debatte um den Begriff der "Ausbildungsreife" und den damit verknüpften bildungs- und sozialpolitischen Implikationen. Dazu wurden die wissenschaftliche und bildungspolitische Literatur zum Thema "Ausbildungsreife" ausgewertet und auf...

In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employment rate of apprentices is about 15 percentage points higher than that of vocational students. Despite this difference, this paper shows that there is almost no difference between the probability of getting a...