Staying Within or Leaving the Apprenticeship System? Revisions of Educational Choices in Apprenticeship Training
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عنوان ژورنال: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2366-049X,0021-4027
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2015-0603