Table 2 Descriptive statistics by non-completion.

Daily apprenticeship wage (W)

21.64

8.23

17.03

8.34

Apprenticeship wage in relation to low skilled workers wage (\(W/W^{(l)})\)

0.34

0.13

0.30

0.14

Daily skilled worker wage (\(W^{(m)}\))

81.70

22.15

73.73

20.30

Natural logarithm of daily skilled worker wage (\(ln \text { }W^{(m)}\))

4.36

0.29

4.26

0.29

Female

0.44

0.50

0.48

0.50

Starting age

18.32

1.90

18.60

1.95

Foreign

0.05

0.22

0.07

0.26

High school diploma

   None

0.10

0.29

0.11

0.31

   Lowest track

0.28

0.45

0.39

0.49

   Intermediate track

0.42

0.49

0.36

0.48

   Academic track

0.19

0.39

0.14

0.34

Service occupation

0.68

0.47

0.72

0.45

Service industry

0.66

0.47

0.77

0.42

Establishment age

19.65

11.57

17.00

11.46

East Germany

0.18

0.38

0.21

0.41

Establishment size

   0–49 employees

0.44

0.50

0.53

0.50

   50–249 employees

0.27

0.45

0.27

0.44

   250+ employees

0.29

0.46

0.19

0.40

Supply-to-demand-ratio of apprenticeships (SDR)

0.99

0.06

1.00

0.07

Marginal employment share (MES)

0.11

0.16

0.14

0.19

Average unemployment days of unskilled relative to

skilled workers (\(u^{(l)}/u^{(m)}\))

1.94

0.80

1.95

0.79

Average unemployment days of high skilled relative to

skilled workers (\(u^{(h)}/u^{(m)}\))

0.94

0.27

0.95

0.26