Countries maintaining a substantial dual apprenticeship system exhibit a much smoother transition from school to work …

„It is generally observed that countries maintaining a substantial dual apprenticeship system (on-the-job training combined with formal vocational schooling), such as Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, also exhibit a much smoother transition from school to work, with low youth unemployment, and a small share of the population neither in employment nor in education and training.“
OECD (Hrsg.), Education Indicators in Focus 68 (März 2019), S. 3.