Integration through vocational training. Promoting refugees’ access to apprenticeships in a collective skill formation system

With this paper we want to contribute the debate on usage of vocational training as a tool promote integration disadvantaged groups. We focus in particular programmes that target refugees and highlight organisational coordination challenges must be addressed order develop such programmes. Relying knowledge developed by scholars collective skill formation those who have studied policy coordination, number hypotheses can account for successful implementation type then test our against an example taken from Switzerland, consisting one-year pre-apprenticeship dual programme adopted 2018. argue its win-win quality, flexibility with which it was managed possibly also political salience issue refugee at time, were key factors explaining adoption.