Apprenticeships and job tenure

This paper was prepared for-the Oxford Economic Papers Conference on Vocational Training in Britain and Europe, September 1992. Financial support from the Leverhulme Trust is gratefully acknowledged. We would like to thank Steve Nickell and two anonymous referees for helpful comments on an earlier draft. We are very grateful to Peter Shepherd of the Social Statistics Unit at the City University for facilitating access to the National Child Development Study, and for advice with the data. We would also like to thank Raj Badiani for careful research assistance, and Nigel Foster for programming advice. Any errors are ours.