... workers can help their good luck along by applying for an apprenticeship in a “better” region with more attractive training firms. Put it differently: regional mobility early in the career can reduce long-run unemployment exposure. Many authors suggest that applications for attractive jobs...

...Alexandre Lene; Benoit Cart The findings indicate that policy makers should be concerned with job mobility at the end of the apprenticeship contract. Manpower policies should focus on measures that enhance the transferability of accumulated skills and the acquisition of new skills...

... on their own accord that youths look for employment in other sectors after the end of their traineeship. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Training Apprenticeship Young people Unemployment The increasing lack of skilled labour, especially but by far not exclusively in the IT sector, has taken...

...Liliane Bonnal; Sylvie Mendes; Catherine Sofer There has recently been a strong drive to develop apprenticeship in France, as one means of decreasing youth unemployment. Our aim in this paper is to try to measure the “pure” within‐firm training effect on school‐to‐work transition. We address...

...Felix Büchel The quality of labor‐market entry achieved by newly qualified apprentices in West Germany from 1948 to 1992 is analyzed. A bivariate probit model, using data from the BIBB/IAB employment survey, is applied to estimate simultaneously the quality of the school‐to‐apprenticeship...