We identify the causal effects of student characteristics on the likelihood of being hired for an apprenticeship and explore the mechanisms underlying the employer’s decision. To this end, we perform a vignette experiment among human resources professionals in Belgium, focusing on less‐qualified youth. Our results indicate that students with favorable educational records and students revealing being motivated are more likely to obtain an apprenticeship. Furthermore, we find that these characteristics are used by human resources professionals as signals of trainability, employability, and quit intentions.

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学生获得学徒制：小插图实验的证据

我们确定了学生特征对学徒制聘用可能性的因果关系，并探讨了雇主决定的基础机制。为此，我们在比利时的人力资源专业人员中进行了一个小插图实验，重点关注素质较低的青年。我们的结果表明，学习成绩良好的学生和表现出积极性的学生更有可能获得学徒制。此外，我们发现人力资源专业人员将这些特征用作可培训性，就业能力和退出意愿的信号。