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Economica

Published by John Wiley and Sons Inc • ISSN: 00130427

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Beyond windfall gains: The redistribution of apprenticeship costs and vocational education of care workers

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In many countries, training subsidies and levy schemes are used to tackle the problem that company-based provision of apprenticeship training is low. In this paper, we consider the introduction of a levy scheme in the care sector and estimate the causal effect exerted by substantial redistribution o…

Prison's Dilemma: Do education and jobs programmes affect recidivism?

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This paper employs a hazard model to analyse the impact of education and two types of prison employment programmes on recidivism over a ten-year period for 4515 prisoners released from Ohio prisons in 1992. Estimations with a Weibull mixture model and propensity score approach provide two means for …