For many youths, a successful transition to upper secondary education is a first and crucial step towards a socially and economically stable life trajectory. With the shift towards a knowledge economy, this transition is growing in importance. In collective skill formation systems, apprentice recruiters are gatekeepers to dual VET. Previous research shows that the egalitarian values of these recruiters have had a positive correlation with a tendency to lower the hiring criteria and to be more inclusive towards low achievers. In this chapter, quantitative and qualitative methods are used to pinpoint the factors that are linked to egalitarian, or inegalitarian, attitudes among Swiss employers. The findings reveal that employers with higher skill demands are less likely to be egalitarian and place high importance in apprentice candidates’ grade averages. Furthermore, the highly visible employers are more likely to harbour egalitarian attitudes towards low achievers in VET as opposed to the less visible employers. © Oxford University Press 2022.
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