State Incentives to Promote and Support Apprenticeship Takeaways from Eight States

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Release Date: September 10, 2023

State Incentives to Promote and Support Apprenticeship Takeaways from Eight States

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Apprenticeships ,  Employment and Training

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U.S. States

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About the Brief

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The brief is part of the State Apprenticeship Systems Capacity Assessment Study funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, which is aimed at understanding how state apprenticeship systems operate to achieve goals. This brief discusses how states use incentives to promote and expand apprenticeship, the benefits of incentives, and the challenges in the administration and implementation of incentives.

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Research Questions

  • What are the goals of incentives?
  • What types of incentives are offered?
  • What types of recipients are incentives directed toward?
  • What are the circumstances in which incentives are used by states to develop sustainable apprenticeship programs and scale apprenticeship?
  • What are the challenges in the administration and implementation of incentives?

Key Takeaways

  • Incentives are helpful for attracting employers to apprenticeships and expanding access to apprenticeship for underrepresented populations.
  • Incentives are helpful for attracting employers to apprenticeships and expanding access to apprenticeship for underrepresented populations.
  • Challenges in the administration and implementation of incentives include the lack of awareness of incentives among employers, the inability to attract certain kinds of employers to use incentives, insufficient resources for marketing and advertising, and the limitations of upfront funding in addressing apprenticeship incompletion.
  • Incentive types include grants, reimbursements, and tax credits. Incentive recipients include employers, education and training entities, intermediaries, and workforce boards or community-based organizations, each of which can serve as an apprenticeship program sponsor.

Citation

Spaulding, S., Petrov, S. (2023) Mathematica. State Incentives to Promote and Support Apprenticeship Takeaways from Eight States. Chief Evaluation Office, U.S. Department of Labor.

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