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Guglielmo Ventura.

Guglielmo Ventura

Research Assistant - CVER

Expertise: economics of education, labour economics

Telephone:
020 7955 6640
Email:
g.ventura@lse.ac.uk
Room:
SAL 2.05 B
Connect:
Twitter
Links:
CEP Education and Skills
Centre for Vocational Education Research

Biography

Guglielmo Ventura is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Economic Performance and Centre for Vocational Education Research. He is a PhD candidate in Economics at University College London.

Current areas of research include:

  • Economics of Education: Returns to vocational education and Apprenticeships; Evaluation of schools effectiveness; demand and supply for skills and training.

Publications

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
The recent evolution of apprenticeships

The quality of apprenticeships in England has improved in recent years, but take-up has dropped. Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura show how these changes mean that those from disadvantaged neighbourho... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

21 February 2023

CVER Research Papers
The Recent Evolution of Apprenticeships: participation and pathways

The number of apprenticeship starts in England has reduced dramatically in recent years following government reforms and the COVID-19 pandemic. The composition has also shifted from almost complete domination by low and ... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

08 December 2022

Blog
The Recent Evolution of Apprenticeships

While the number of apprenticeship starts in England has reduced dramatically in recent years, policy changes have likely improved their average quality. Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Gu Ventura discuss the evoluti... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

08 December 2022

CVER Research Papers
On Track to Success? Returns to vocational education against different alternatives

Many countries consider expanding vocational curricula in secondary education to boost skills and labour market outcomes among non-university-bound students. However, critics fear this could divert other students from mo... Read more...

Sönke Hendrik Matthewes and Guglielmo Ventura

11 November 2022

Blog
On Track to Success? Returns to Vocational Education against different alternatives

In the wake of Brexit and the global pandemic, skills shortages across the UK economy risk hampering efforts to reverse a decade of languishing productivity and festering inequality. Reinvigorating the long-neglected Bri... Read more...

Sönke Hendrik Matthewes and Guglielmo Ventura

11 November 2022

Chapter
Returns to vocational education and training

What are the consequences of choosing the vocational track over the general or academic track in upper secondary education? This review discusses the evidence for this. It first sets out the arguments for and against voc... Read more...

Sandra McNally, Guglielmo Ventura and Hanna Virtanen

29 July 2022

Blog
Net zero transition to mean significant change for 1.3 million workers

The UK's experience of structural change through deindustrialisation during the 1970s and 1980s drove up unemployment, concentrated among particular parts of the population, and left deep scars on some parts of the count... Read more...

Molly Broome, Stefano Cellini, Kathleen Henehan, Charlie McCurdy, Capucine Riom, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura

30 June 2022

External publications
Net zero jobs

The Government's commitment to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 will mean investment, and change, across the economy: from the decarbonisation of buildings and surface transport, to shifts in diet, avi... Read more...

Molly Broome, Stefano Cellini, Kathleen Henehan, Charlie McCurdy, Capucine Riom, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura

20 June 2022

External publications
Changing jobs?

This report is about the nature and speed of change in the UK's labour market, about how past periods of rapid change have happened, and about workers' experiences as they have lived through these changes. It is written ... Read more...

Nye Cominetti, Rui Costa, Andrew Eyles, Tzvetan Moev and Guglielmo Ventura

06 January 2022

Blog
Understanding educational progression at the local level: Portsmouth, the northern city on the south coast

Understanding regional inequalities is likely to be key to understanding the UK's overall macroeconomic performance. In this article, Jo Blanden, Hector Espinoza, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura analyse the educatio... Read more...

Jo Blanden, Hector Espinoza, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

25 March 2021

Blog
New incentives for businesses to train their employees are needed for economic recovery from Covid-19

The need to retrain or upskill the workforce has become ever more urgent due to sharp changes in skills demand induced by the pandemic, write Jiaqi Li, Guglielmo Ventura and Anna Valero.... Read more...

Jiaqi Li, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura

18 January 2021

Blog
Closing the gap between vocational and general education: University Technical Colleges in England

England introduced University Technical Colleges - hybrid education institutions which combine general and vocational education - in 2010. This column presents the results from the first evaluation of the causal effect o... Read more...

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Camille Terrier and Guglielmo Ventura

23 December 2020

CVER Research Papers
Trends in job-related training and policies for building future skills into the recovery

The trends outlined in this paper and the broader evidence suggest that new or enhanced policies to increase the quantity and quality of job-related training are required, particularly for younger workers or those with l... Read more...

Jiaqi Li, Anna Valero and Guglielmo Ventura

16 December 2020

Blog
Why urgent support is needed to address UK skills deficit

New incentives are needed for businesses to train their employees for a post-Covid world, writes Guglielmo Ventura.... Read more...

Guglielmo Ventura

16 December 2020

Blog
Stark contrast between pre- and post-16 provision in UTCs

At a time when Prime Minister Boris Johnson has put the government’s skills policy agenda in the spotlight, Guglielmo Ventura presents findings from his research seeking to understand whether UTCs were successful at br... Read more...

Guglielmo Ventura

29 October 2020

CVER Research Papers
Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education.... Read more...

Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Camille Terrier and Guglielmo Ventura

14 October 2020

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
In brief...Apprenticeships after Covid-19

Guglielmo Ventura outlines the challenges for England's apprenticeship system as economic and social activity resumes... Read more...

Guglielmo Ventura

15 July 2020

CVER Briefing Note
What future for apprenticeships after coronavirus?

The Covid-19 pandemic outbreak and the ensuing economic uncertainty caused interruptions to apprenticeship training. This is putting the future of apprenticeships at risk just at the time when they will be most needed ... Read more...

Guglielmo Ventura

14 July 2020

Blog
The future of apprenticeships is in the balance

The unprecedented economic upheaval brought by the Covid-19 pandemic raises several concerns for the functioning of the English apprenticeship system, particularly in the medium-term as economic and social activity resum... Read more...

Guglielmo Ventura

02 May 2020

Journal article
Do apprenticeships pay? Evidence for England

The importance of apprenticeships for early labour market transitions varies across countries and over time. In recent times, there has been a policy drive to increase the number of people undertaking apprenticeships in ... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

01 April 2020

Blog
Does starting an apprenticeship boost young people’s earnings?

Apprenticeships feature in the vocational education systems of many countries, although their popularity varies widely. They are especially prevalent in countries like Austria, Germany and Switzerland and virtually absen... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

07 September 2018

CVER Research Papers
Do apprenticeships pay? Evidence for England

The importance of apprenticeships for early labour market transitions varies across countries and over time. In recent times, there has been a policy drive to increase the number of people undertaking apprenticeships in ... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

07 September 2018

CEP industrial strategy
Do Apprenticeships Pay? Evidence for England

The importance of apprenticeships for early labour market transitions varies across countries and over time. In recent times, there has been a policy drive to increase the number of people undertaking apprenticeships in ... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

07 September 2018

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Is there a payoff to apprenticeships for young people?

As part of an effort to transform the UK’s post-16 educational landscape, the government is aiming for a massive increase in the number of apprenticeships. Research by Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventur... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

01 March 2018

CVER Research Papers
Apprenticeships for Young People in England: Is there a Payoff?

In recent times, there has been a policy drive to increase the number of people undertaking apprenticeships in England. In this paper we examine the characteristics of young people who start an apprenticeship and we look... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

30 November 2017

Blog
Do apprenticeships pay?

The government aims to massively increase the number of apprenticeships and to make this a more important part of the post-16 educational landscape. In our research - published today by the Sutton Trust - we investigate ... Read more...

Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura

30 November 2017

Journal article
Post-Compulsory Education in England: Choices and Implications

Most students do not follow the ‘academic track’ (i.e. A-levels) after leaving school and only about a third of students go to university before the age of 20. Yet progression routes for the majority that do not take thi... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Guglielmo Ventura

01 May 2017

CVER Briefing Note
Further Education in England: Learners and Institutions

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Claudia Hupkau and Guglielmo Ventura

21 February 2017

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Post-16 educational choices in England

Well under half of young people in England complete A-levels, yet the baffling array of qualifications available for their peers is rarely discussed. Sandra McNally, director of the newly established Centre for Vocationa... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Guglielmo Ventura

04 October 2016

CVER Research Papers
Post-compulsory education in England: choices and implications

Most students do not follow the 'academic track' (i.e. A-levels) after leaving school and only about a third of students go to university before the age of 20. Yet, progression routes for the majority that do not take th... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Guglielmo Ventura

08 July 2016

Submissions to parliamentary inquiries and government consultations
Response to the Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy for the Apprenticeships Inquiry

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K Hadjivassilou, Claudia Hupkau, Steven McIntosh, Sandra McNally, Stefan Speckesser and Guglielmo Ventura

01 March 2016

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