Meet the need – the role of vocational education and training for the youth labour market.

To combat negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world support vocational education and training (VET) programmes. This paper investigates how enrolment rates in upper‐secondary education programmes – general education, school‐based VET and dual VET – affect ten youth la...

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Published in:Kyklos Vol. 74; no. 3; pp. 321 - 349
Main Authors: Bolli, Thomas, Oswald‐Egg, Maria Esther, Rageth, Ladina
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2021
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          Bolli, Thomas
          Oswald‐Egg, Maria Esther
          Rageth, Ladina
        affil: D‐MTEC, ETH Zurich, Leonhardstrasse 21, Zurich 8092, , Switzerland
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        Labor market
        Vocational education
        Quality of work life
        Young consumers
        Panel analysis
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          Labor market
          Vocational education
          Quality of work life
          Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
          Vocational Rehabilitation Services
          Young consumers
          Panel analysis
      ab: To combat negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world support vocational education and training (VET) programmes. This paper investigates how enrolment rates in upper‐secondary education programmes – general education, school‐based VET and dual VET – affect ten youth labour market indicators on integration and job quality. We run first‐difference generalized method of moments regressions on panel data of 36 countries for 2004 through 2014. We complement the existing literature by dealing with unobserved heterogeneity across time and reverse causality and by analysing non‐linear effects that might arise due to general equilibrium effects. Our findings show that school‐based VET and dual VET have different effects: school‐based VET's effect on the labour market depends on the outcome indicator and country, whereas dual VET overall improves both labour market integration and job quality. Depending on the labour market indicator, we find evidence for both linear and non‐linear effects. In educational reforms, policymakers should therefore consider the non‐linear and heterogeneous effects of VET.
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