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Apprentices in France: more numerous, more highly qualified, better integrated into the labour market and better paid

Apprentices in France

 

 

 

 

Apprentices and the training-to-work transition: an unqualified advantage?

Alberto Lopez, Emmanuel Sulzer

Training and Employment , n° 123 , 2016 , 4p.

Ever increasing numbers of apprentices, with increasingly high levels of education and training, are entering the labour market and, despite the crisis, under significantly more favourable conditions than young people who have taken the classroom-based route. However, the overall positive tone of this general picture conceals differences between levels of qualification and tracks and, above all, a selective entry process to this pathway whose effects have still to be assessed.

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