Two measures that helped Germany keep youth unemployment low are apprentice training and subsidized employment for young people, including self-employment.

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Mr. Chadwick, the adopted Chinese son of English educators, started training at 15 years old to be a jockey apprentice at the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

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Of the forty-nine people invited to the training camp, twenty-three made the cut and were hired as apprentice advisers.

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