Providing Employers with Incentives to Train Low-SkilledWorkers: Evidence from the UK Employer Training Pilots
We use unique workplace and employee-level data to evaluate a majorUK government pilot program to increase qualification-based, employer-providedtraining for low-qualified employees. We evaluate the program'seffect using a difference-in-differences approach. Using data on eligibleemployers and workers we find no evidence of a statistically significanteffect on the take-up of training in the first 3 years of the program.Our results suggest that the program involved a high level of deadweightand that improving the additionality of the subsequent national programis crucial if it is to make a significant contribution toward governmenttargets to increase qualification levels. (c) 2011 by The University of Chicago. Allrights reserved..
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2011
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Authors: | Abramovsky, Laura ; Battistin, Erich ; Fitzsimons, Emla ; Goodman, Alissa ; Simpson, Helen |
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Journal of Labor Economics. - University of Chicago Press. - Vol. 29.2011, 1, p. 153-193
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University of Chicago Press |
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