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The data situation with respect to 'supply' and 'demand' in vocational training

Naomi Gericke, Stephan Kroll, Klaus Troltsch and Joachim Gerd Ulrich Assisted by: Elisabeth M. Krekel, Markus Linten and Christina Widera

These and other warning reports made the headlines in the daily press during the summer of 2008. The reports sounded strange in light of the fact that talk up to that time was - at most - about a major shortage of training places and not about a shortage of applicants. In years past, firms in Germany's eastern states were inundated with applications.