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...

Switzerland and Germany would like to establish close relationships in the field of Vocational Education and Training (VET) in the four countries of the Pacific Alliance (PAC): Mexico, Chile, Columbia and Peru. The present report provides a brief analysis of the education systems of the four...

Vocational education and training (VET) is a major policy topic for countries all over the world, who are eager to learn from the best examples where participation in VET is high and youth unemployment is low. Policymakers want to know how strong VET systems manage challenges like rapid...

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...

Switzerland is famous for its vocational education and training (VET) system. This article describes Switzerland's success in integrating adolescents into the labour market, with emphasis on two aspects. First, dual-track VET, which combines learning at school and in host companies, is an...

The KOF Youth Labour Market Index (KOF YLMI) is a multidimensional tool that allows analysing the situation on the labour market of young people aged 15 to 24 for 178 countries. The twelve indictors composing the index offer a more complete picture than the simple comparisons of for example the...