Successive British governments have committed substantial public resources to apprentice training, but far too few … young people benefit and not enough high value skills have been developed. That is the central conclusion of a new report … research experience in this field, calls for a change in the country’s apprenticeship model. …

skill premia we observe can be explained by supply or demand factors. We propose a model of demand for skills with three …

where potential jobs were low-skilled and low-paid, policy was explicitly work (rather than training) first, and lone …

skills into occupations prevents credible identification of polarization’s effect on wages. I solve the selection …-bias problem by studying the changes in returns to occupation-specific skills instead of the changes in occupational wages using …-determined test scores, which predict occupational sorting and thus measure relative occupation-specific skills. My estimation …