Staying within or leaving the apprenticeship system? Revisions of educational choices in apprenticeship training

This study is partly funded by the Swiss Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology through its "Leading House on the Economics of Education: Firm Behaviour and Training Policies". We also wish to thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for financial support through a scholarship and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, for its hospitality. Ed Lazear, Armin Schmutzler, Rainer Winkelmann, Tobias Caluori, Ines Pelger and Christian Pfeifer have given most helpful comments on an earlier version. We would also like to thank Alex Lefter for his valuable comments on this version. Finally, two anonymous referees and the editor have given excellent comments that improved the quality of this research considerably. We are extremely grateful to Klaus Schöngen at the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BiBB) for providing us with the data set "Vertragslösungen 2002 - Strukturen und Gründe". Franziska Schoch has provided outstanding research assistance.

This study is partly funded by the Swiss Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology through its "Leading House on the Economics of Education: Firm Behaviour and Training Policies". We also wish to thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for financial support through a scholarship and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, for its hospitality. Ed Lazear, Armin Schmutzler, Rainer Winkelmann, Tobias Caluori, Ines Pelger and Christian Pfeifer have given most helpful comments on an earlier version. We would also like to thank Alex Lefter for his valuable comments on this version. Finally, two anonymous referees and the editor have given excellent comments that improved the quality of this research considerably. We are extremely grateful to Klaus Schöngen at the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BiBB) for providing us with the data set "Vertragslösungen 2002 - Strukturen und Gründe". Franziska Schoch has provided outstanding research assistance.

This study is partly funded by the Swiss Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology through its "Leading House on the Economics of Education: Firm Behaviour and Training Policies". We also wish to thank the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for financial support through a scholarship and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, for its hospitality. Ed Lazear, Armin Schmutzler, Rainer Winkelmann, Tobias Caluori, Ines Pelger and Christian Pfeifer have given most helpful comments on an earlier version. We would also like to thank Alex Lefter for his valuable comments on this version. Finally, two anonymous referees and the editor have given excellent comments that improved the quality of this research considerably. We are extremely grateful to Klaus Schöngen at the German Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BiBB) for providing us with the data set "Vertragslösungen 2002 - Strukturen und Gründe". Franziska Schoch has provided outstanding research assistance.