In-company training costs and organisation over the course of apprenticeship training

Most companies providing initial vocational training to young people initially incur costs and view initial vocational training primarily as an investment in the qualification of future skilled workers. The level of costs and returns shifts, however, over the course of initial vocational training. Decisive factors in this, apart from rising training allowances, are the productivity of the trainees and the organisation of initial vocational training. The article outlines these developments with reference to the data from the BIBB Cost-Benefit Survey 2012/13 in occupations requiring initial vocational training of various durations.