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Do German Vocational Apprentices Earn More Than Their American Counterparts? I’m Skeptical

Somin’ don’t smell right with Ed Lazear’s claim in Friday’s WSJ that “Germans with vocational apprenticeships are considerably better off than their American counterparts.” A graph in the NYT shows all but the lowest 30% of Americans earn more than their German counterparts. (People in the bottom 30% don’t work much, so differences in incomes are not simply a matter of wages.)  America achieves these across-the-board results despite substantially less vocational training, lower academic test scores, and fewer top-scoring workers.

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