The objective of this paper is to evaluate the Brazilian Apprenticeship program (Lei do Aprendiz). This program is a youth-targeted ALMP that has been adopted at a large scale since 2000 in Brazil. The program concedes payroll subsidies to firms that hire and train young workers under special...

In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of smaller birth cohorts and an increasing proportion of school leavers aiming for higher education. This paper investigates whether a programme that supports firms to train...

We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship. Eligibility to the programme is restricted to school leavers who have actively searched for apprenticeship training to start immediately after leaving school, but were...

Das Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen hat zwischen 1994 bis 1999 verschiedene Arbeitsmarktprogramme aufgelegt, um besonders benachteiligte Gruppen möglichst dauerhaft in den Arbeitsmarkt zu (re-)integrieren. Die Umsetzung von drei dieser zielgruppenorientierten Programme hat das Institut Arbeit...