Using New South Wales survey data, the author shows how a social discriminatory process operates bet ween firms and households to restrict apprenticeship opportunities in general and to restrict opportunities to preferred trades in particular for persons without strong family links to the labour market. This firm/household link is strongest in the case of apprenticeship recruitment in small firms.
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