This study investigates the relationship between minimum wage policies and educational choices, specifically the decision between vocational and general school enrollment. While higher minimum wages often attract students to vocational education as a faster route to employment, our analysis of...

Diese Publikation befasst sich mit der Rolle der Lese-, Alltagsmathematik und Problemlösekompetenzen im Berufsalltag. Dabei wird untersucht, inwiefern die getesteten Kompetenzen mit der Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung zusammenhängen, und ihre Verteilung innerhalb der Erwerbsbevölkerung beschrieben....

In the standard model of human capital with perfect labor markets general training. When labor market frictions compress the structure of wages in the general skills of their employees. The reason is that the distortion in the wage structure" turn technologically' general skills into specific'...

University Technical Colleges (UTCs) were introduced in England in 2010. They are hybrid schools which combine general and vocational education and have conventional and unconventional entry ages. Their introduction provides an opportunity to study the impact of technical education offered by...

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced ‘University Technical Colleges’ (UTCs) in 2010 for...

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced 'University Technical Colleges' (UTCs) in 2010 for...

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

Research suggests that students are skeptical about the values of General Education courses. This revelation calls for different strategies to improve students' engagement in the classes, including the use of online learning platforms. This study documents students' experiences of the online...

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced 'University Technical Colleges' (UTCs) in 2010 for...

Some countries, notably those which have long had a weak history of vocational education like the UK and the US, have recently seen a rapid expansion of hybrid schools which provide both general and vocational education. England introduced "University Technical Colleges" (UTCs) in 2010 for...

Research suggests that students are skeptical about the values of General Education courses. This revelation calls for different strategies to improve students' engagement in the classes, including the use of online learning platforms. This study documents students' experiences of the online...

Vocational skills are job-specific skills that prepare for work in specific occupations. By contrast, the usage of general skills transcends specific occupations. In dynamically changing economies, this difference implies a basic trade-off between vocational and general education programs for...

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In several Member States (MS) students in vocational-oriented programmes (VET), when compared to general education students, perform better in digital reading than in print reading in PISA 2012. Results suggest that schools should help VET students develop further their digital skills to support...

We use administrative data to examine medium and long-term formal education and labor market impacts among participants and family members of a randomized vocational training program for disadvantaged youth in Colombia. In the Colombian program, vocational training and formal education are...

In this paper, we compare experience-earnings profiles of employees with vocational and general education background in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, three countries with fundamentally different education systems. Using Mixed-Effects Linear Regression Models we show that...

This article considers the uneven positions of school teachers in different regions of the Russian Federation. There exist numerous research works on the relation of school teachers’ salaries to the characteristics of regional educational systems and regional economies. A range of indicators...

Pavel Derkachev - Candidate of Sciences in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Applied Economic Research, Institute of Education, National Research University-Higher School of Economics. Address: 20 Myasnitskaya str., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation. E-mail: pderkachev@hse.ruThe...

In this paper I analyze the impact of basic training and specialized training on the distribution of skill, income disparity, social welfare, and on the structure of a decentralized specialized city system. This is done in a spatial general-equilibrium model of a closed economy producing a...

Vor dem Hintergrund des durch Informationstechnologien (IT) angestoßenen weitreichenden Transformationsprozesses in allen sozialen, gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Bereichen erläutert der Forschungsbericht die Relevanz der Wirtschaftsinformatik für die schulische Bildung. Nach der...