Registered apprenticeship programs had large, statistically significant positive impacts on employment in the ninth quarter following enrollment relative to both community college students and Wagner-Peyser participants¶
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q3 i? The positive impact of registered apprenticeship on ninth-quarter employment ranged from 7.8 percentage points (Wagner-Peyser analysis) to 8.8 percentage points (College analysis). → Jonah Deutsch 2026
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Jonah Deutsch 2026¶
Jonah Deutsch, Daniel Kuehn, Karen Gardiner, Deborah Reed, Julia Payne, Moriah Macklin, Ariella Spitzer, Peter Schochet, Astrid Harnack-Eber, Peter Kress. (2026). The Impact of Registered and Unregistered Apprenticeship: Evidence from the Scaling Apprenticeship and Closing the Skills Gap Grants. Urban Institute. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/the-impact-of-registered-and-unregistered-apprenticeship
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Impact evaluation of the Scaling Apprenticeship and Closing the Skills Gap grants comparing registered apprentices to two comparison groups. The report states a statistically significant employment impact "ranged from 7.8 percentage points (Wagner-Peyser analysis) to 8.8 percentage points (College analysis)". No standardized effect size is printed.
"The positive impact of apprenticeship on employment in the ninth quarter following enrollment ranged from 7.8 percentage points (Wagner-Peyser analysis) to 8.8 percentage points (College analysis)."
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Related Claims¶
- An adult-education market report asserts, quoting earlier research it does not detail, that adult training yields better results the more closely it relates to a real job or occupation — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
- Registered apprenticeship had positive, statistically significant impacts on ninth-quarter earnings, ranging from $3,230 to $4,693 depending on the comparison group — related
- Registered apprenticeship had strong ninth-quarter employment and earnings impacts for IT, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing sectors — related
- Unregistered apprenticeship programs had positive, statistically significant impacts on ninth-quarter employment, ranging from 3.9 to 4.8 percentage points — related
- Some employers were reluctant to hire new apprentices during pandemic economic uncertainty, but no mass cancellations of apprenticeships were reported — related
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Registered apprenticeship programs had large, statistically significant positive impacts on employment in the ninth quarter following enrollment relative to both community college students and Wagner-Peyser participants |
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Registered apprenticeship programs had large, statistically significant positive impacts on employment in the ninth quarter following enrollment relative to both community college students and Wagner-Peyser participants |
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2026 |
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