We conducted a field experiment in France which shows that employers exhibit little preference when deciding whom to invite for job interviews: unemployed apprentices or vocational students, both of whom have earned the same diploma. By merging the results of this experiment with a search and matching model which accounts for the selection of apprentices retained by their training firms, we provide a framework to understand the ways in which apprenticeship influences youth employment. Our results indicate that the main positive impact on employment comes from retaining apprentices within their training company, while the productivity gap compared to vocational students remains minimal when the same skills can be acquired through the academic path or apprenticeship.

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工作场所与学校职业教育对青年失业的影响：来自法国的证据

我们在法国进行了一项实地实验，结果表明雇主在决定邀请谁参加工作面试时并没有什么偏好：失业学徒或职业学生，他们都获得了相同的文凭。通过将该实验的结果与搜索和匹配模型相结合，该模型考虑了培训公司保留的学徒的选择，我们提供了一个框架来理解学徒制影响青年就业的方式。我们的结果表明，对就业的主要积极影响来自于在培训公司保留学徒，而当可以通过学术途径或学徒制获得相同的技能时，与职业学生相比，生产力差距仍然很小。