The merits of apprenticeship can be considered from two standpoints, according to whether
it is viewed as vocational education or job training. In the first case, the relevant comparison …

Skills and Inequality studies the political economy of education and training reforms from the
perspective of comparative welfare state research. Highlighting the striking similarities …

School-to-work patterns and issues are discussed for seven economies (France, Germany,
Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States). The …

Apprenticeship varies greatly across countries, in terms of both quantity (numbers trained)
and quality (skill content); and across sectors and occupations within countries, in terms of …

This paper explores the incentives faced by employers for supplying general training of the
type given to craft apprentices. An investment model is developed, in which the employer's …

In recent years the German economy has grown sluggishly and created few new jobs. These
developments have led observers to question the future viability of a model that in the past …

British apprenticeship, now dependent on the Modern Apprenticeship programme, is
compared in this paper to both German apprenticeship and its national predecessor, Youth …

To what extent does the experience of other European econom‐ies in which apprenticeship
has proved successful suggest scope for reviving apprenticeship in the UK without requiring …

Theoretically, the central research question of this article pertains to the way in which
national institutional arrangements, namely educational systems, and related modes of …

The term 'apprenticeship'covers a wide range of practice, from the extended periods of
servitude and limited learning that featured prominently in early modern England to the high …