Moving apps from old machine to new Mac

My current MacBook belongs to my employer and I must return it. My new employer will purchase a new Mac for me. I will zero out the drive before I hand in the old machine, but what happens to the apps I have on my current machine? Obviously I don't want to have to purchase them again.
1. Will the apps automatically migrate to my new Mac based on my Apple ID?
2. What steps must I take to re-install when the time comes?
Thanks in advance for your replies!

A lot depends on the individual apps...some will be in the app store under Purchases and can be downloaded again. Some may not run with the new operating system, if they are legacy apps that required Rosetta, i.e., those that ran under Snow Leopard and older versions of Mac OS X. Those that ran on Lion should be ok.
To re-download you will have to login to the Mac App Store with the same AppleID and password as you used to purchase the apps. They are tied to the AppleID.
You might want to get an external hard drive and just clone the current internal drive so you have a good, bootable backup copy you can then use to migrate to the new machine. That would be the safest way to ensure the apps are available to you.

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