Delivery of vocational education in schools is a controversial issue around the world and attempts to improve it have been tried for decades. A substantive innovation in vocational education provision came about in 2010 in England when a new form of hybrid schools was introduced that combine...

Skilled technical workers are needed to make any country highly competitive and more productive globally. However, there are reports that the supply of skilled technical workers does not adequately meet the current and future demand in the US labor market, and this is expected to continue if...

We estimate gender differences in elicited wage expectations among German University students applying for STEM and non-STEM fields. Descriptively, women expect to earn less than men and also have lower expectations about wages of average graduates across different fields. Using a two-step...

Die Publikation stellt die Ergebnisse eines vom BIBB durchgeführten Forschungsvorhabens vor, welches die Bedarfslage eines möglichen staatlich geregelten dualen Ausbildungsberufes in der Medizinprodukteaufbereitung untersucht. Hierfür werden die betrieblichen Strukturen,...

We examine the effect of attending stand-alone technical high schools on student short- and long-term outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. Male students are 10 percentage points more likely to graduate from high school and have half a semester less time enrolled in college, although...

Aus der Einleitung: "Der österreichische Arbeitsmarkt ist trotz vielfältiger Maßnahmen in einem hohen Ausmaß geschlechtsspezifisch segregiert: Handwerk und Technik sind männer-, Pflege- und Sozialberufe frauenkonnotiert. Diese Teilung bildet sich bereits bei Ausbildungen ab....

Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language receive a larger share of female applicants for...

Née en 1963 pour porter les revendications des salariés qualifiés à responsabilités, l'Ugict-CGT est vite devenue un outil précieux pour contribuer au regroupement d'un salariat soumis aux politiques néolibérales qui ne cessent de le diviser. Tandis que la CGT représente le monde du...

This paper presents the first evidence of how students make career technical education (CTE) course-taking decisions. Among the universe of Michigan high-schoolers we find large disparities in CTE access and participation by gender, race, and income. We decompose participation gaps between...

In this study, we describe the postsecondary transitions of students taking CTE courses in high school using administrative data on one cohort of high school students from Washington State. Our findings indicate that CTE students are less likely to enroll in college overall, especially four-year...

Wie erfolgt der berufliche Wiedereinstieg nach Abschluss der Fachschule Technik? Die vorliegende Untersuchung fokussiert ein systematisches Beschreibungs- und Erklärungswissen zum Wiedereinstieg nach erfolgreichem Abschluss der Fachschulweiterbildung und liefert datengestützte Erkenntnisse zu...

Despite the renewed interest in technical education, only a handful of studies analyze its effect on academic outcomes. In this paper we apply a regression discontinuity design to oversubscribed technical high school tracks in Pernambuco, Brazil, to identify the impact of technical education...

Ample of the current motivation to teach and assess employability skills will decide India’s ability to compete in the world economy. For a win-win situation, there must not be any differences in Institute’s perception and students’ experience in accessing employability skills for future...

We estimate gender differences in elicited wage expectations among German University students applying for STEM and non-STEM fields. Descriptively, women expect to earn less than men and also have lower expectations about wages of average graduates across different fields. Using a two-step...

We estimate gender differences in elicited wage expectations among German University students applying for STEM and non-STEM fields. Descriptively, women expect to earn less than men and also have lower expectations about wages of average graduates across different fields. Using a two-step...

We estimate gender differences in elicited wage expectations among German University students applying for STEM and non-STEM fields. Descriptively, women expect to earn less than men and also have lower expectations about wages of average graduates across different fields. Using a two-step...

El rol de la educación técnica como promotora de desarrollo económico e inclusión social ha tomado relevancia en las políticas públicas de la región en los últimos años. En este documento se analiza el marco normativo que rige a la educación técnica en el Ecuador, tanto a nivel medio...

La Educación Técnico-Profesional (ETP) es un tema de creciente interés en debates regionales sobre educación y desarrollo socio-económico, sin embargo se observa un escaso conocimiento de sus características y resultados, especialmente desde una perspectiva de género.En este escenario, en...

La educación técnico-profesional viene experimentado transformaciones substantivas en la región, aunque con diferentes ritmos y grados de concreción en cada país. En las últimas décadas a la par que se asiste a una incorporación masiva de las mujeres al mercado de trabajo, se registra...

La educación técnico-profesional viene experimentado transformaciones sustantivas en la región, aunque con diferentes ritmos y grados de concreción en cada país. En las últimas décadas a la par que se asiste a una incorporación masiva de las mujeres al mercado de trabajo, se registra una...

Bereits in den letzten Jahren haben Zuwanderer erheblich zur Fachkräftesicherung in MINT-Berufen beigetragen. Bestrebungen, MINT-Zuwanderer aus dem Herkunftsland Indien zu gewinnen, zeigen erste Erfolge – sowohl die Zahl der Beschäftigten in akademischen MINT-Berufen als auch die Zahl der...

In recent years, qualified immigration has started to play a significant role for the German labour market, especially for securing skilled STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) employment. Efforts made to attract STEM immigrants from India are starting to show signs of...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet die Arbeitssituation von Frauen in technischen Berufen. Der Anlass, sich mit diesem Thema auseinanderzusetzen, ist der nach wie vor stark geschlechtsspezifische segregierte Arbeitsmarkt, der vor allem für Frauen viele Nachteile mit sich bringt: Weiblich...

We investigate the potential role of fathers in females' decision to choose a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) major in college. The main innovation of our paper is to analyze how sibling sex composition affects the probability of being a STEM major in college for females...