Providing Employers with Incentives to Train Low-Skilled Workers: Evidence from the UK Employer Training Pilots

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Abramovsky, Laura; Battistin, Erich; Fitzsimons, Emla; Goodman, Alissa; Simpson, Helen
• 署名单位: University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; University College London; University of Padua; University of Bristol
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/656372
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 153-193
• 关键词: investment; INFORMATION; IMPACT

摘要

We use unique workplace and employee-level data to evaluate a major UK government pilot program to increase qualification-based, employer-provided training for low-qualified employees. We evaluate the program's effect using a difference-in-differences approach. Using data on eligible employers and workers we find no evidence of a statistically significant effect 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 deadweight and that improving the additionality of the subsequent national program is crucial if it is to make a significant contribution toward government targets to increase qualification levels.