The Quality of Apprenticeship Training

Wendy Smits

Education Economics, 2006, vol. 14, issue 3, pages 329-344

Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between a firm’s training motives and the quality of apprenticeship training. Data on training quality and training motives are obtained by interviewing former apprentices. The paper employs a novel measure for training quality based on subjective survey data on the firm’s training effort. It is found that firms that train apprentices because of a future need for qualified workers provide better quality training than firms that do not have future benefits from training.

Keywords: Human capital; training quality; training motives; apprenticeships (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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