Beyond Windfall Gains: The Redistribution of Apprenticeship Costs and Vocational Education of Care Workers

Eric Schuss

No 176, Economics of Education Working Paper Series from University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW)

Abstract: In many countries, training subsidies and levy schemes are used to tackle the problem that company-based provision of apprenticeship training is low. In this paper, we consider the introduction of a levy scheme in the care sector and estimate the causal effect exerted by substantial redistribution of care worker apprenticeship costs on the training activity of care facilities. We exploit the fact that the underlying apprenticeship levy was introduced across the German federal states at different points in time. For ambulatory care, we find a positive effect on the probability of hiring new apprentices and on the number of new apprentices. Inpatient care facilities only react at the intensive margin. This suggests that the positive effects in this sector are mainly driven by facilities that have already provided training slots before the reform.

Keywords: Apprenticeship training; Care workers; Training levy schemes; Labor shortage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I18 J23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2021-01, Revised 2023-05
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