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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | Employment Prospects and Skill Acquisition of Apprenticeship-Trained Workers in Germany |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | Industrial and Labor Relations Review |
| Publisher | Cornell University |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 0019-7939 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Number | 4 |
| Page Range | 658 - 672 |
| Date | 1996 |
| Abstract Text | Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984-90, the author analyzes the entrance of young individuals into the German labor market, comparing the experience of apprenticeship graduates to that of graduates from universities, full-time vocational schools, and secondary schools. Apprentices experienced fewer unemployment spells in the transition to their first full-time employment than did non-apprentices. Among apprentices, those trained in large firms had the smoothest transition to employment; once employed, however, apprentices (whether they stayed in their training firm or not) and non-apprentices had similar job stability (as measured by tenure). An estimated 70% of apprenticeship trainees left their training firm within a five-year period. These findings are consistent with the view that apprenticeship training develops general, portable skills rather than firm-specific skills |
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| Digital Object Identifier | 10.2307/2524515 |
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