Devolving Skills: The case of the Apprenticeship Grant for Employers

Chiara Cavaglia (), Sandra McNally and Henry Overman

CVER Research Papers from Centre for Vocational Education Research

Abstract: One rationale for devolution is that local decision makers may be well placed to adapt national skills' policies to the local context. We test whether such adaptation helps meet programme objectives in the case of the Apprenticeship Grant for Employers. Originally a national programme, aimed at incentivising employers to take on apprentices, reforms a few years in to operation gave some Local Authorities negotiated flexibilities in how the scheme operated. We use a difference-in-differences approach to test whether this led to an increase in the number of apprenticeship starts in devolved areas relative to control groups. We find that the policy had zero effect. There is suggestive evidence that this is because flexibilities were negotiated on the wrong margins

Keywords: Apprenticeships; devolution; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H73 J24 J48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03-06
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Journal Article: Devolving Skills: The Case of the Apprenticeship Grant for Employers (2020)
Working Paper: Devolving skills: the case of the Apprenticeship Grant for Employers (2020)
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