The determinants and effects of work-related training in Britain

Published on 1 April 1996

Work Related training is currently at the top of the political and public policy agenda. The report looks at who gets work related training in Britain, the effect it has on the subsequent employment prospects of men and women, the wage payoffs to different types of work related training, and whether it improves the wages prospects of relatively low skilled individuals.

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Work Related training is currently at the top of the political and public policy agenda. The report looks at who gets work related training in Britain, the effect it has on the subsequent employment prospects of men and women, the wage payoffs to different types of work related training, and whether it improves the wages prospects of relatively low skilled individuals.

    Authors

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    Lorraine Dearden

    Richard Blundell
    Richard Blundell

    CPP Co-Director

    Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.

    Costas Meghir
    Costas Meghir

    Research Fellow Yale University

    Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.

    Report details

    DOI
    10.1920/re.ifs.1996.0050
    ISBN
    978-1-873357-56-9
    Publisher
    IFS

    Suggested citation

    R, Blundell and L, Dearden and C, Meghir. (1996). The determinants and effects of work-related training in Britain. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/determinants-and-effects-work-related-training-britain (accessed: 14 January 2025).

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