apprenticeships

Which forms of vocational training and apprenticeships can help young people find productive work in the global south?

Providing monetary incentives for trainers enhanced the quality of apprenticeship training and had lasting benefits for apprentices’ skills and labour market outcomes

Evidence from Uganda suggests that vocational training is more effective in tackling youth unemployment than apprenticeships

Vocational training programmes, rather than apprenticeships, make it easier for youth in Uganda to move between firms and out of unemployment.

While both vocational training and apprenticeships raise employment of poor Ugandan youth and are cost-effective in the long run, vocational training has larger impacts