apprenticeship programme and its collective bargaining system that is based on voluntary union recognition. To guide the empirical … regarding apprenticeship training, layoffs, wage cuts, and wage compression in unionized and non-unionised firms. Our empirical …

We model the choice of individuals to follow or not apprenticeship training and their subsequent career. We use German … mobility and search frictions. We show how apprenticeship training affects labour market careers and we quantify its benefits …

We evaluate the German apprenticeship system, which combines on-the-job training with classroom teaching, by modelling … apprenticeships increase wages, and change wage profiles with more growth upfront, while wages in the non-apprenticeship sector grow … are harder to reallocate following job loss. The average life-cycle return to an apprenticeship career is about 14% and …

apprenticeship programme and its collective bargaining system that is based on voluntary union recognition. To guide the empirical … regarding apprenticeship training, layoffs, wage cuts, and wage compression in unionized and non-unionised firms. Our empirical …