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CVER Research Paper

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

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 trai...Read more...

CVER Briefing Note

Exploring trends in apprenticeship training around the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy: emerging evidence using a matched apprentice-employer dataset

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Blog

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Changing Aspirations and Outcomes in Post-16 Education

In this latest blog post, Steven McIntosh of University of Sheffield discusses CVER contributions to the recent Augar Review of Post-18 Education, and the findings that came out of that research. CVER have been contribut...Read more...

CVER Briefing Note

Post-16 Aspirations and Outcomes: Comparison of the LSYPE Cohorts

CVER was commissioned by the Department for Education to undertake research in support of the current Review of Post-18 Education (The Augar Review). This research brief summarises some of the key findings that came out ...Read more...

CVER Research Paper

The causal effect of secondary school peers on educational aspirations

This paper uses data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) to investigate how the educational aspirations of secondary school pupils in Year 9 (at age 14) and in Year 11 (at age 16) are influence...Read more...

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Do older apprentices get the same earnings boost as younger ones?

There has been a huge increase in the number of people over the age of 25 who are undertaking apprenticeships. Prior to 2007, there were essentially no apprentices in this age group in England; in 2016/17, nearly half of...Read more...

CVER Research Paper

Labour Market Outcomes of Older Versus Younger Apprentices: A Comparison of Earnings Differentials

Over the last decade, there has been a large increase in the number of individuals completing an apprenticeship, with the growth in numbers particularly strong amongst those age 25+ when starting their apprenticeship. Th...Read more...

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The Payoff to Vocational Qualifications: Reconciling Estimates from Survey and Administrative Data

Steve McIntosh and colleagues from the University of Sheffield and London Economics look at what different types of data can tell us about the payoff to vocational qualifications. Researchers looking to estimate the pay...Read more...

CVER Research Paper

The Payoff to Vocational Qualifications: Reconciling Estimates from Survey and Administrative Data

This paper takes as a starting point the wage/earnings differentials associated with vocational qualifications that have been estimated in the literature. Two distinct parts of that literature are identified, using surve...Read more...

Government consultation

CVER Response to BEIS Green Paper - Building our Industrial Strategy

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CVER Briefing Note

The Decision to Undertake an Apprenticeship: A Case Study

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CVER Research Paper

Labour Market Returns to Vocational Qualifications in the Labour Force Survey

This report uses data from the Labour Force Survey covering the period 1997-2015, to estimate wage premiums, or returns, to acquiring vocational qualifications. Different specifications of the wage equations are estimate...Read more...

Government consultation

Response to the Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy for the Apprenticeships Inquiry

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CEP discussion paper

The Returns to Apprenticeship Training

This paper uses recent data from the UK Labour Force Survey to estimate the wage gains that individuals make on average if they complete an apprenticeship programme. The results suggest gains of around 5-7% for men, but ...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

The Impact of Vocational Qualifications on the Labour Market Outcomes of Low-Achieving School-Leavers

This paper creates a pseudo cohort of individuals who left school in the mid-1990s, using Labour Force Survey. The extent of low achievement at school amongst this group is documented, and then the impact of such low ach...Read more...

CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Further Analysis of the Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in the UK: An Analysis of Graduate Occupation Choice from the 1960s to the 1990s

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Britain's Record on Skills

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

Measuring and Assessing the Impact of Basic Skills on Labour Market Outcomes

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CEE/Education and skills discussion paper

The Returns to Academic and Vocational Qualifications in Britain

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CEP discussion paper

Working on the Chain Gang? An Examination of Rising Effort Levels in Europe in the 1990s

This paper presents evidence that, across many European countries, the 1990s have witnessed an intensification of labour effort, and investigates explanations for this process. Using data drawn from The European Survey o...Read more...

CentrePiece article

Overeducation: a tough nut to crack

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CEP discussion paper

Overeducation and Skills - Clarifying the Concepts

There is now a burgeoning literature on the topic of 'overeducation' (and the complementary concept of 'undereducation'), and a growing quantity of UK empirical evidence on this issue. However, as Joop Hartog indicat...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

A Cross-Country Comparison of the Determinants of Vocational Training

Using data from the European Labour Force Survey, the characteristics of individuals who receive vocational training is compared in six European countries; Germany, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and the UK. A...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

If You're Happy and You Know It...Job Satisfaction in the Low Wage Service Sector

The issue of worker satisfaction is important both for the sake of individuals themselves and also for employers for whom happy staff should be productive staff. Highly satisfied staff have been shown to have lower prope...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

The Demand for Post-Compulsory Education in Four European Countries

This study seeks to explain changes in the proportion of 16 year olds, 17 year olds and 18 year olds who decide to participate in post-compulsory education. Four countries are considered; Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden...Read more...