As apprentice training in Germany, and in other countries such as Switzerland and Austria, is legally regulated to ensure that qualifications are transferrable beyond a particular company's confines, it can be assumed that the majority of the qualifications imparted during apprentice training represents investment in Becker's sense of general human capital.
In fact, the majority of their qualifications are still high school degree (2012: 46%).
In contrast, school leavers with qualifications for higher education enjoy the best opportunities in terms of transition, particularly because they have the option of pursuing university degree opportunities, which the overwhelming majority of applicants with qualifications for higher education do.
She has documented facts that I myself consider fundamental, in particular the fact that working women account for the dominant share of employment in the processing industry, where the majority of jobs require fewer qualifications, are manual and are badly paid.
Currently, America's 30 or so elite universities turn away over 90% of applicants (the vast majority of whom meet the qualification standards) as the result of a process he describes as a "lottery".
It was interesting to note that a large percentage of patients (at least 60%) from the Expanded Discovery Set-1 presented an increased abundance between D0 and other time points for MF 174.0636 and the majority of patients from the Qualification Set also showed this MF increasing in abundance over time.
It is a strength of the study that the majority of participants had no formal qualifications, had been in skilled or semi-skilled but not managerial or professional occupations, were judged to have poor social capital and moderate to high levels of material deprivation, and were considered disadvantaged in terms of frequency of contact with others.
The government says it still expects "the vast majority" of teachers to have the qualification, but that the change will allow head teachers to bring in professionals with "great knowledge and new skills".
However, 17.5% of those working at health centres had no health qualification, a majority of whom were volunteers.
The majority of CM'S had an undergraduate qualification only (59%), four had a specialised qualification in psychiatric nursing and three CM's had a higher degree at the masters' level.
