Apprenticeship training helps to avoid youth unemployment

Expert conference on “Youth: Employment and Inclusion

in Times of Crisis” Horsens, 26 - 27 May 2012

Werner SchellingPublic Employment

Service Austria

Unemployment rates 15 to 24 years (1)

0

5

10

15

20

25

2011

Netherlands

Austria

Germany

Denmark

EU 27

Unemployment rates 15 to 24 years 2011 (2)

Netherlands 7.6 %

Austria 8.3 %

Germany 8.5 %

Denmark 14.4 %

EU 27 21.4 %

Training guarantee

Given by the Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Consumer Protection:

Every young person from 15 to 24 years who is registered as unemployed or apprenticeship-seeking with the PES for more than three months will either be offered a suitable job, an apprenticeship on the free market or a training opportunity provided by the PES within three months

Fulfilment of the Training guarantee (2011)

79.5 % of the unemployed jobseekers were registered less than 3 months

97.7 % of the unemployed jobseekers were registered less than 6 months

93.9 % of the apprenticeship seekers were registered less than 3 months

99.5 % of the apprenticeship seekers were registered less than 6 months

Average duration of registration: 58 days for unemployed jobseekers 26 days for apprenticeship seekers

Apprenticeship training in Austria 250 vocations Dual system: practical training in a company, theoretical

and practical training in a public school Duration: 2 to 4 years About 40 % of all young people from 15 to 19 get their

basic vocational training through an apprenticeship Main advantages

Attractive for more practically-oriented young people

Early contact with the working world

Easy transition from training to employment

Apprenticeship-related services of the PES Placement of apprenticeship seekers in apprenticeships

on the free market without subsidies Placement of apprenticeship seekers in apprenticeships

on the free market with subsidies Placement of apprenticeship seekers in subsidised

institutions

Active measures for youths (15 to 19) in 2011

Inflow Average stock

Placement in apprenticeships in companies with subsidies

7,036 11,829

Placement in apprenticeships in subsidised institutions

6,098 7,915

All qualification measures 34,432 46,991

All measures 38,097 51,004

Unemployed jobseekers 54,815 8,646

Apprenticeship seekers 54,995 9,513

Apprenticeships with subsidies in companies, effect

In 2010 12,716 youths finished subsidised apprenticeship in a private company

On the 92nd day after finishing 10.574 (83.2 %) were in employment or in non-subsidised apprenticeship

Apprenticeships in institutions, effect

Analysis of 6,241 youths who finished training in 2010

Employed Unemployed or in another

measure

Out of labour force

Share of days in the 12 months before entering the measure

20.81 % 20.57 % 58.62 %

Share of days in the 12 months after finishing the measure

54.62 % 24.87 % 20.50 %

Thank you for your attention!