Maria Esther Oswald-Egg


Last Name

Oswald-Egg

First Name

Maria Esther

ORCID

0000-0002-2154-3798

Organisational unit

09704 - Renold, Ursula / Renold, Ursula

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  • Meet the need – The role of vocational education and training for the youth labour market
    Item type: Working Paper
    Bolli, Thomas; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Rageth, Ladina (2017)
    KOF Working Papers
    To fight negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world foster vocational education and training programmes (VET). We therefore investigate how the share of three upper secondary education programmes, i.e. general education, school-based VET, and dual VET, affect the labour market of 15- to 24-year-olds. We complement the existing literature by analysing non-linear effects that might arise due to general equilibrium effects. Furthermore, we include ten labour market indicators for integration and job quality. To address unobserved heterogeneity across countries, we run fixed effects regressions on unbalanced panel data of 35 countriesfrom2004to2014. Wefindthatschool-basedVEThindersyouthlabourmarketintegration. In contrast, dual VET improvesnot onlylabour market integration butalso job quality. However, the positive and negative effects of VET programmes diminish with increasing enrolment rates. Thus, policymakers should consider these different effects in their educational reforms.
  • Analysis of Challenges to Strengthening the Serbian dual VET System
    Item type: Report
    Renold, Ursula; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther (2017)
    KOF Studies
  • Does Vocational Education and Training Improve the Youth Labour Market Performance?
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Bolli, Thomas; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Rageth, Ladina (2016)
    9th International Conference on Social Science Methodology - Book of abstracts
  • Das Bildungssystem Schweiz mit Schwerpunkt Berufsbildung
    Item type: Book Chapter
    Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Renold, Ursula (2016)
    Schweizer Berufsbildungsinitiative in Indien. Hintergründe, Konzept und Ergebnisse des Pilotversuchs 2008-2013
  • Primena Zakona o dualnom obrazovanju
    Item type: Report
    Renold, Ursula; Caves, Katherine Marie; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther (2021)
    CES Studies
  • Does vocational education and training improve the entry of young people into the labor market?
    Item type: Other Conference Item
    Bolli, Thomas; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Rageth, Ladina (2015)
  • Unintended Consequences: A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Companies’ Provision of Training
    Item type: Conference Poster
    Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Caves, Katherine Marie (2022)
  • El sistema de formación profesional suizo: ¿qué puede aprender España de Suiza?
    Item type: Journal Article
    Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Renold, Ursula (2014)
    Información Comercial Española
  • On the Multiple Dimensions of Youth Labour Markets
    Item type: Report
    Renold, Ursula; Bolli, Thomas; Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; et al. (2014)
    KOF Studies
    This report describes the development of the KOF Youth Labour Market Index (KOF YLM Index), a tool that allows to compare the labour market situation of youth across countries. This project, developed by the Research Division Education System, aims to disentangle problematic defined as "youth paradox", i.e. the fact that in these days the access to education reaches levels never reached before but even though increasingly problems in the integration process of youth into the labour market are observable. Our approach is multidimensional: the basic idea is that a single indicator (e.g. the widespread used unemployment rate) does not provide sufficient information for a comprehensive analysis. In order to foster multidimensionality we thus select twelve indicators that describe the labour market from different perspectives. The data for these indicators are collected from various international institutions and cover up to 178 countries for the time period between 1991 to 2012. On the basis of these indicators we first develop the KOF YLM Index. The evolution of this index over time, as well as the representation of the indicator set in a spider web, are displayed in a specific web application. A part of this report illustrates the usefulness of the web application in a detailed descriptive analysis of selected European countries. Beside of illustrating the developments in Europe's largest countries, a particular focus lies on countries that have struggled most during the Great Recession. The heterogeneity of the developments over time of the KOF YLM Index components highlights the relevance of accounting for the multidimensional approach of the youth labour market. This tool, which is available at at http://kof.ethz.ch/de/indikatoren/, is part of a widespread research project aiming to identify the connections between the typology of education system and the situation on the labour market for young aged 15 to 24 years.
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