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In this concluding paper the author reviews the way Germany's dual system of apprenticeship has played a central role in comparative research on the transition from school to work using youth unemployment as a yardstick. While it is suggested that there may be some technical problems in the way that youth unemployment is measured, the author contends that the principal problem in judging the efficacy of national transition arrangements on the basis of single youth unemployment measures is that any single transition outcome indicator, no matter how carefully defined and measured, presents too simplistic a picture of the complexities of the transition process and its outcomes for youth. Australia and Germany are compared from the perspective of labour market outcomes and education outcomes.