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Surviving Apprenticeship Training: A Duration Analysis of Apprenticeship Contracts in Australia

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  • John Mangan

    (Corresponding author: Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld. 4072 Australia. Email: j.mangan@uq.edu.au.)

  • Bernard Trendle

    (Senior Research Economist with the Labour Market Research Unit of the Department of Employment and Training. Email: bernard.trendle@deta.qld.gov.au.)

Abstract

Fifty percent of youth entrants to apprenticeships in Australia fail to complete their course producing costs to, employers, the trainees themselves and society in general. This study uses data from the Direct Entry Level Training Administration for a duration analysis of this high attrition rate. We find those most likely to survive apprenticeship training will be males who have completed high school prior to training, work with a single employer, undertake train within the Government system and avoid occupations such as food trades and hairdressing.

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  • John Mangan & Bernard Trendle, 2008. "Surviving Apprenticeship Training: A Duration Analysis of Apprenticeship Contracts in Australia," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, , vol. 19(4), pages 379-398, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jinter:v:19:y:2008:i:4:p:379-398
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    1. Fries, Jan & Göbel, Christian & Maier, Michael F., 2013. "Do employment subsidies reduce early apprenticeship dropout?," ZEW Discussion Papers 13-053, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    2. John Mangan & Bernard Trendle, 2017. "Attrition and retention of apprentices: an exploration of event history data using a multi-state modelling framework," Education Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(4), pages 406-417, July.
    3. Wydra-Somaggio, Gabriele, 2017. "Early termination of vocational training: dropout or stopout?," IAB-Discussion Paper 201703, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
    4. Laporte, Christine & Mueller, Richard, 2010. "The Persistence Behaviour of Registered Apprentices: Who Continues, Quits, or Completes Programs?," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2010-21, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 27 May 2010.

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