Providing Employers with Incentives to Train Low-Skilled Workers: Evidence from the UK Employer Training Pilots
利用独特的企业和员工数据，采用双重差分法评估英国政府一项旨在提高低技能员工培训参与率的试点项目，发现项目前三年对培训参与率无显著统计影响，存在较高死重成本。
We use unique workplace and employee-level data to evaluate a majorUK government pilot program to increase qualification-based, employer-providedtraining for low-qualified employees. We evaluate the program'seffect using a difference-in-differences approach. Using data on eligibleemployers and workers we find no evidence of a statistically significanteffect 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 deadweightand that improving the additionality of the subsequent national programis crucial if it is to make a significant contribution toward governmenttargets to increase qualification levels. (c) 2011 by The University of Chicago. Allrights reserved.