European apprenticeship systems, especially Germany's, have inspired a series of demonstration projects in the United States and a major new initiative by the Clinton administration, which is embodied in the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994. German research on apprenticeship provides some prospective insights into how participation in apprenticeship and apprentice-like experiences might affect adolescents in the United States. Four questions guide an examination of that literature: How are young people allocated to apprenticeships and thereby to occupations? What are the occupational prospects for workers who have completed apprenticeships? How does apprenticeship affect young people's political socialization? How does apprenticeship affect young people's personality development? Results are summarized in recommendations for the design of a U.S. system. Copyright © 1996, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
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