The training market and the employment system
The 'dual' vocational training system (which combines part-time vocational schooling with practical work experience) plays an important role in the German vocational training system. The majority of each age cohort strives to enter the workforce with a formal qualification earned in the dual vocational training system. Successful completion of a formal vocational training programme is vital to the individual's successful integration into the employment system and for his/her career prospects. Research on the correlations between the training market and the employment system is conducted not only by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB) but particularly by the Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Services (IAB).
In this work BIBB concentrates on aspects that are important for the further development and organisation of vocational training. Work on fundamental developments relating to the supply of and demand for vocational training, the willingness of enterprises to provide in-house vocational training, and relevant developments in the employment system and their impact on vocational training is done here. BIBB research also examines processes that are involved in the transition to vocational training and to employment, the factors behind enterprises' behaviour in the provision of in-company vocational training, and changes in job qualification requirements which provide the basis for the further development of occupations.
These processes are described on the basis of official statistics and BIBB's own primary surveys. BIBB's research uses this data and analyses processes pertaining to the vocational training market and the employment system. BIBB makes the results of this work available to researchers and interested experts.
