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School-to-work transition: Apprenticeship versus vocational school in France

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Bonnal, Liliane
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Mendès, Sylvie
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Sofer, Catherine
International Journal of Manpower
Journal · Vol. 23 · Issue 5 · pp. 426-499
Abstract

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 the problem of the transition to the first job, using a model of simultaneous maximum likelihood estimation of several probabilities and of the parameters of the probability density function linked to the exit from unemployment. We conclude that apprentices have a distinct advantage over those who attended vocational school. This effect is stronger when we correct for the negative selection bias associated with the choice of apprenticeship.

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Apprenticeship work young people Labour market France school leavers

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Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, Toulouse, Occitanie, France
Faculté de Droit, Université d'Orléans, Orleans, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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