...Samuel Muehlemann; Stefan C. Wolter Purpose The purpose of this paper is to simulate the potential costs and benefits for Spanish firms providing dual apprenticeship training. Design/methodology/approach The paper conducts simulations of ten training occupations in six different industries...

.... The remainder of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 briefly describes the Swiss apprenticeship training system. Section 3 presents the data. Section 4 discusses the empirical estimation strategies, and Section 5 presents the results. Section 6 concludes. Dual apprenticeship programs...