Professor of Economic Evaluation at the University of Westminster. Empirical labour market research.

Evaluation of Traineeships

[ employment-and-welfare  education-and-training  matching  instrumental-variables  ]

Traineeships offer young people a work placement and work preparation training, plus the opportunity to improve their English and Maths skills. They are aimed at young people who are not working and have little work experience, but are expected to have a reasonable chance of being ready for employment or an apprenticeship within six months of starting the Traineeship. The evaluation seeks to establish whether Traineeships are effective in helping young people to progress into sustained employment, an apprenticeship, or further learning. It applies matching and instrumental variables techniques to large administrative datasets.

Outputs

Dorsett, R., and Stokes, L. (2022) Pre-apprenticeship training for young people: estimating the marginal and average treatment effects Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 185(1): 37-60

Dorsett, R., Gray, H., Speckesser, S. and Stokes, L. (2019) Estimating the impact of Traineeships Department for Education Research Report 919

Dorsett, R., and Stokes, L. (2019) Pre-apprenticeship training for young people: estimating the marginal and average treatment effects University of Westminster working paper 2019/003

Funder

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills