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What lessons are we learning from the Youth Contract and the impact of wage incentives? Rob Tabb Liverpool City Region Employment and Skills Board
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Zombie statistic alert “There are 42 different incentive schemes available for employers to take on workers” Senior DWP official, Welfare to Work Convention, July 2012
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“to get to Ballymena, well, I wouldn’t have started from here”
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This is like déjà vu all over again
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What is the purpose of the incentive? Job creation Getting somebody a job who wouldn’t have normally got the job It might be possible to have both
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Employer feedback 76% said that they would have recruited fewer Apprentices if the incentive was not available 75% reported they would not have employed the individual without the subsidy 82% of these employers would reduce recruitment without the incentive 75% would reduce recruitment if the incentive was halved
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“I don’t want 4 phone calls a day from people telling me about their different incentives. I want to go to one place and get one answer.” Hotelier, Liverpool City Region
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Learning lessons? Are we?
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