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No Experience, No Employment: The Effect of Vocational Education and Training Work Experience on Labour Market Outcomes after Higher Education
(2019)KOF Working PapersHigher education graduates with work experience enter the labour market more smoothly. This paper analyses how work experience from vocational education and training (VET) affects labour market outcomes after higher education. To account for selection into VET we use the regional enrolment rate as an instrument for upper-secondary VET. Results suggest that work experience gained during VET leads to significantly higher wages one year after ...Working Paper -
Theoretical and Methodological Framework for Measuring the Robustness of Social Institutions in Education and Training
(2019)KOF Working PapersSocial institutions are relatively stable patterns of behavior or joint action that help overcome fundamental problems and perform a function in society. The robustness of such institutions underlies their effectiveness at solving problems, but such robustness is difficult to assess. Building on different institutionalism approaches, this paper first develops a theoretical framework of social institutions. This framework combines Miller’s ...Working Paper -
Meeting in the middle: TVET programs’ education-employment linkage in developing contexts
(2019)KOF Working PapersTechnical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs are most successful at supporting youth labor markets when they combine education and employment. Education-employment linkage theory describes this combination in terms of power-sharing between actors from the education system and their counterparts in the employment system over key processes in the curriculum value chain of curriculum design, curriculum application (program ...Working Paper -
First Report on the Dual Vet-Apprenticeship Programme in Nepal: Formative Assessment of the First Cohort
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Bericht zu den Interviews mit Arbeitgebern/innen zur Evaluation des Rahmenlehrplans für den Bildungsgang «dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/in HF»
(2019)KOF StudiesDieser Bericht ist Teil der fünften Befragungswelle der Evaluation des Rahmenlehrplanes des Bildungsgangs «dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/in Höhere Fachschule für Wirtschaft» (RLP HFW). Die vorliegende Studie beschäftigt sich mit der Frage wie die Arbeitgeber/innen von (ehemaligen) HFW-Studierenden ihre Mitarbeitenden und deren Kompetenzen während und nach dem Studium wahrnehmen. Dabei werden Aspekte wie die Kompetenzanforderungen der ...Report -
Fünfter Bericht zur Evaluation des Rahmenlehrplans für den Bildungsgang «dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/in HF»
(2019)KOF StudiesDie vorliegende Studie besteht aus drei Teilen. Der erste Teil untersucht, ob der Rahmenlehrplan des Bildungsgangs «dipl. Betriebswirtschafter/in Höhere Fachschule» für Wirtschaft (RLP HFW) den Anforderungen von Studierenden und Arbeitgebern gerecht wird, oder ob die Aktualität des RLP HFW seit 2014 abgenommen hat. Der zweite Teil präsentiert die Ergebnisse einer Befragung ehemaliger Studierender, um herauszufinden, inwiefern sich die ...Report -
Rapport sur la gouvernance dans la formation professionnelle: pilotage systémique du modèle suisse
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Has the relationship between formal education and the formal employment sector in Nepal changed between 1995 and 2014?
(2019)KOF Working PapersThis paper analyses the relationship between formal education and the formal employment sector in Nepal. The analysis of several individual-level surveys between 1995 and 2014 shows that completed tertiary education increases the probability to be wage-employed in the non- agricultural sector, while primary and secondary education has little relationship With wage- employment. However, primary, secondary and tertiary education all ...Working Paper -