Scaling Apprenticeship and Closing the Skills Gap¶
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Evidence · 6 claims (6 for) · 1 study (1 causal),q3· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 6 claims rest on one study
Description¶
Two U.S. Department of Labor-administered grant programs that fund employers and other organizations to expand earn-and-learn apprenticeship training combining classroom instruction with mentored on-the-job training.
Components¶
- Scaling Apprenticeship and Closing the Skills Gap grant programs: Two federally funded grant programs administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that this evaluation studies. The report describes apprenticeship as "an 'earn and learn' employer-based training model" that combines "classroom-based instruction with on-the-job training (OJT) under a mentor at the employer's worksite," with apprentices employed during training and earning progressively higher wages. DOL awarded almost $284 million to 51 grantees between 2019 and 2020 under the two programs. (Jonah Deutsch et al. (2026))
Claims¶
- Registered apprenticeship had positive, statistically significant impacts on ninth-quarter earnings, ranging from $3,230 to $4,693 depending on the comparison group [+W]
- 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 [+W]
- Registered apprenticeship had strong ninth-quarter employment and earnings impacts for IT, healthcare, and advanced manufacturing sectors [+W]
- Unregistered apprenticeships had statistically significant ninth-quarter employment and earnings impacts specifically for advanced manufacturing [+W]
- Unregistered apprenticeship programs had positive, statistically significant impacts on ninth-quarter earnings, ranging from $3,368 to $3,490 [+W]
- Unregistered apprenticeship programs had positive, statistically significant impacts on ninth-quarter employment, ranging from 3.9 to 4.8 percentage points [+W]
Related Products and Programmes¶
Key Sources¶
- 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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Scaling Apprenticeship and Closing the Skills Gap |
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