ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the systems of initial vocational education and training (VET systems) in four Nordic countries connect to the labour market, and how they support the students’ transition to employment. It employs a conceptual lens of three different coordination regimes: state planning, market-based regulation and institutionalised negotiation. In addition, it compares the organisation of young peoples’ educational choice and the selection process in the students’ transitions to work and examines employment protection in the four countries. Finally, it compares attempts to revive apprenticeships and discusses why these attempts only have been successful in two of the four countries.
