IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/oec/cfeaaa/2012-8-en.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Apprenticeships in London: Boosting Skills in a City Economy - With Comment on Lessons from Germany

Author

Listed:
  • Stephen Evans

    (London Development Agency)

  • Gerhard Bosch

    (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Abstract

The London Apprenticeship Campaign was launched in 2010 to boost the number of apprentices in London. It was developed as part of an ongoing policy focus to tackle long-standing skill shortfalls in the city, shortages which have been constraining employment, social opportunity and productivity. A critical element was to establish more apprenticeship frameworks outside traditional sectors and in growth sectors dominating the local economy. A remarkable innovation in the campaign has been supplementing the supply-side approach with a demand-side policy by working to engage more private sector employers, while also ensuring a strong public sector commitment. Germany has one of the most successful apprenticeship models internationally and can provide good learning lessons for London on putting in place effective apprenticeship approaches at national, regional and local level.

Suggested Citation

  • Stephen Evans & Gerhard Bosch, 2012. "Apprenticeships in London: Boosting Skills in a City Economy - With Comment on Lessons from Germany," OECD Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Papers 2012/8, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:cfeaaa:2012/8-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5k9b9mjcxp35-en
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1787/5k9b9mjcxp35-en
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1787/5k9b9mjcxp35-en?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Francesca Froy, 2013. "Global policy developments towards industrial policy and skills: skills for competitiveness and growth," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press and Oxford Review of Economic Policy Limited, vol. 29(2), pages 344-360, SUMMER.
    2. Aktoty Aitzhanova & Shigeo Katsu & Johannes F. Linn & Vladislav Yezhov (ed.), 2014. "Kazakhstan 2050: Toward a Modern Society for All," Books, Emerging Markets Forum, edition 1, number kazakh2050, November.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oec:cfeaaa:2012/8-en. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ceoecfr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.