The costs of standardized apprenticeship curricula for training firms

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 6 Retention of apprentices and premature contract terminations

	Logit		Fractional regression
	Retain apprentices mostly		Share apprentices retained one year		Share contract termination
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Content not used	\(-\)0.147* (0.077)	\(-\)0.101 (0.071)	\(-\)0.120** (0.054)	\(-\)0.078 (0.048)	0.038** (0.019)	0.032* (0.018)
Additional skills	0.035 (0.027)	0.027 (0.028)	0.022 (0.019)	0.013 (0.019)	0.008 (0.007)	0.010 (0.007)
Occupation dummies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Firm size dummies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Industry dummies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Greater region dummies	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Additional firm characteristics	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Apprentice characteristics	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Pseudo R-squared	0.117	0.131	0.059	0.073	0.044	0.053
Observations	4138	4138	4152	4152	4152	4152

Average marginal effects reported. \(^{\star \star \star }\), \(^{\star \star }\), and \(^{\star }\) denote statistical significance at the 1%, 5%, and 10% level, respectively. Standard errors given in parentheses. Results are weighted with sampling weights. The dependent variable in columns (1) to (2) is a dummy being one for firms that plan to retain apprentices after the apprenticeship period in the “majority of cases”, and zero otherwise. The dependent variable in columns (3) to (4) refers to the self-reported share of apprentices that still work at their training firm one year after they completed their apprenticeship. The dependent variable in columns (5) to (6) refers to the self-reported share of premature apprenticeship contract terminations. Occupation, industry and region dummies as shown in Table 9. Additional firm and apprentice characteristics are listed in Table 1