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The impact of the Apprenticeship Levy on Apprenticeships and other training outcomes

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  • Gavan Conlon
  • Andy Dickerson
  • Steven McIntosh
  • Pietro Patrignani

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Since April 2017, UK employers with an annual pay bill above £3 million have contributed to the Apprenticeship Levy. In this paper we use a matched firm-learner dataset to explore changes in apprenticeship and other training outcomes between 2015/16 and 2018/19, a period which spans the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy. The findings reveal that over the period, there was a substantial shift away from lower-level apprenticeship starts to higher-level starts. Moreover, this shift was greater for employers who were required to pay the Levy, with smaller reductions in lower-level apprenticeships, and greater increases in higher-level apprenticeships when compared to similar non-Levy paying employers. No substantial differences were observed for other (non-apprenticeship) training undertaken over the same period.

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  • Gavan Conlon & Andy Dickerson & Steven McIntosh & Pietro Patrignani, 2021. "The impact of the Apprenticeship Levy on Apprenticeships and other training outcomes," CVER Research Papers 034, Centre for Vocational Education Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:cep:cverdp:034
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    Keywords

    apprenticeship; apprenticeship levy; training;
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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