Mr. Schatborn has, for example, reattributed the drawing on the right to Rembrandt's skilled apprentice Arent de Gelder, noticing that the model's ear resembles ears in a known work by de Gelder.
The report, by the Institute for Public Policy Research IPPRR) and the Local Government Association LGAA), found 67% of intermediate-skilled apprentices were already employed by their company when they were given their apprenticeships.
Finally, while performing skilled tasks, apprentices are initially much less productive than fully trained workers (in this case, approximately 20%, meaning that if it takes 12 minutes for a skilled worker to complete a task, an apprentice will require 60 minutes to complete the same task).
There a distinction was made between skilled trades needing apprentices, semiskilled trades needing trainees, and handicrafts that employed artisans.
By following or just walking past other skilled workers, the apprentice can develop vocational competencies.
Unskilled work should be mainly confined to the beginning of training, when the relative productivity of apprentices in skilled work is low and the development of non-cognitive skills such as punctuality, exactness, reliability or stamina (products of socialisation in the working world) are important.
The value of having apprentices perform skilled tasks is calculated as the time that apprentices spend on such tasks, multiplied by the wage that a firm would need to pay skilled workers if no apprentices had been hired.
As a result of the interaction between task performance and guidance from more skilled co-workers, the apprentices develop vocational competencies that correspond to workplace requirements.
However, if a firm can expect a sufficiently high subsequent return on its training investment (by retaining apprentices as skilled workers), a firm may well be willing to make a net investment in apprenticeship training.
83 While younger children were probably little use as apprentices in skilled trades, they might have been of more value in a larger-scale workforce where the attainment of a certain level of all-round skill was less important.
