What drives the intention of Bavarian crafts apprentices to change employer or occupation? An empirical study in the crafts sector

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 Cross tabulation of job mobility measures

	Employment offer by training establishment	Job offer from another firm	Communicated separation from the training establishment	No information about job offers or communicated separations
Intention to stay with establishment and keep occupation	245 22.52 %	12 1.10 %	4^a 0.37 %	79 7.26 %	340 31.25 %
Intention to change establishment but keep occupation	144 13.24 %	31 2.85 %	14 1.29 %	190 17.46 %	379 34.83 %
Intention to change establishment and occupation (change career)	93 8.55 %	45 4.14 %	21 1.93 %	210 19.30 %	369 33.92 %
	482 44.30 %	88 8.09 %	39 3.58 %	479 44.03 %	1,088

^aThis figure is counterintuitive at first glance. One would expect that, if an apprentice has already told the training establishment that he or she wants to leave after apprenticeship training, the apprentice has no intention of staying with the training firm. However, these four cases can be explained by temporary separations from the training firm (e.g. military or social service). The apprentices leave for a couple of months but want to return afterwards. To check whether the four observations affect the results, we deleted these cases and repeated our analyses. All results remained constant