Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216466 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13154
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employment rate of apprentices is about 15 percentage points higher than that of vocational students. Despite this difference, this paper shows that there is almost no difference between the probability of getting a callback from employers for unemployed youth formerly either apprentices or vocational students. This result indicates that the higher employment rate of apprentices does not rely, in the French context, on better job access of those who do not remain in their training firms. The estimation of a job search and matching model shows that the expansion of apprenticeship has very limited effects on youth unemployment if this is not accompanied by an increase in the retention of apprentices in their training firm.
Subjects: 
field experiment
school-to-work transitions
apprenticeship
JEL: 
J24
M53
M51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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