This paper provides evidence on the effect of apprenticeship costs on the decision whether care facilities employ apprenticeship graduates after completing apprenticeship training. To account for the endogeneity in apprenticeship costs, we exploit an exogenous reduction in the apprenticeship costs of care facilities by exploiting the fact that the underlying apprenticeship levy was introduced across the German federal states at different points in time. We find that the redistribution of apprenticeship costs increases the probability of leaving the training facility after completing apprenticeship training by 10 percentage points. Furthermore, we use this quasi-experimental setting to estimate the effect of mobility of graduates on their wages, which hints at a negative relationship in the upper quartile of the wage distribution.

本文提供了学徒成本对护理机构是否雇用完成学徒培训后的学徒毕业生的决定的影响的证据。为了解释学徒成本的内生性，我们通过利用德国联邦各州在不同时间点引入的基础学徒税这一事实，利用护理机构学徒成本的外生性降低。我们发现，学徒成本的重新分配使完成学徒培训后离开培训机构的可能性增加了 10 个百分点。此外，我们使用这种准实验设置来估计毕业生流动性对其工资的影响，这暗示了工资分布的上四分位数的负相关关系。