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Externe Publikationen
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Titel
Herausgeber
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Sprache
Beschreibung
Art des Dokumentes
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Titel
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Herausgeber
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Sprache
Beschreibung
Art des Dokumentes
2009
Costs and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training. A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland.
Applied Economics Quarterly
Regina Dionisius,
Samuel Muehlemann,
Harald Pfeifer,
Günter Walden,
Felix Wenzelmann,
Stefan C. Wolter
English
For the first time it has been made possible to merge a German and a Swiss firm-level data set that include detailed information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyzes based only on aggregate data showed that the net costs of training apprentices are substantial in Germany, whereas apprenticeship training is on average profitable during the training period for firms in Switzerland, even though the two training systems are rather similar. This paper analyzes the reasons for these differences with matching methods. We simulate the impact of changes in certain parameters such as wages, apprenticeship system-related factors and allocation of tasks to apprentices on the cost-benefit ratio using the counterfactual values of the other country. The results show that most of the difference in the net costs of training between the two countries can be explained by a higher share of productive tasks allocated to apprentices in Switzerland and the differences in relative wages.
Studies & Tools
2010
The Implementation and impact of National Qualifications Frameworks: Report of a study in 16 countries
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Stephanie Allais
English
This is the report of an international research project conducted by the Skills and Employability Department of the ILO on the implementation of National Qualifications Frameworks (NQFs) and their use and impact.The research aimed to produce empirical evidence and analysis of countries’ experiences as a basis for advising countries on whether, and if so, then how, to introduce a qualifications framework as part of a strategy to achieve their wider skills development and employment goals.
Studies & Tools
2012
Transforming TVET: Building skills for work and life - Main working document
United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
English
The UNESCO study looks in depth at the major trends and policy developments in TVET since the second international Congress held in Seoul in 1999. This work has two main objectives. The first is to analyse world trends in TVET in the context of wider development trends since the second International Congress. The second is to advance conceptual and policy debates on TVET to address persisting challenges and to proceed towards future frontiers.
Studies & Tools
2012
Synthese und Meta-Evaluierung Berufliche Bildung
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Reinhard Stockmann,
Stefan Silvestrini
Deutsch
Ziele der Studie sind die Analyse der Ergebnisse der Einzelevaluierungen hinsichtlich ihrer Verallgemeiner und Übertragbarkeit auf zukünftige Vorhaben, die Identifikation wiederkehrender Stärken und Schwächen bzw. Erfolgs und Misserfolgsfaktoren sowie ggf. die Entwicklung eines darauf aufbauenden Erklärungsmodels.
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2012
Upgrading informal apprenticeship - A resource guide for Africa
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Christine Hofmann
English
This publication promotes a policy learning approach to build on the strengths of informal apprenticeship systems and reap their potential. It provides an overview of what we know about upgrading informal apprenticeship for decision- makers in ministries, trade unions and employers’ organizations, ILO skills and employment specialists in the eld, and training experts in other interna- tional or national development agencies who are dealing with or envisage dealing with the training system of the informal economy.
Articles & Factsheets
2013
Overcoming the work-inexperience gap through quality apprenticeships – the ILO’s contribution
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Michael Axmann,
Christine Hofmann
English
The ILO works with constituents on improving transitions from school and training to decent work. Apprenticeship systems in the formal and informal economy are important means to smooth transitions and provide quality skills that are of relevance to labour markets. Work on upgrading informal apprenticeship focuses on building on local traditions and practices, improving the quality of training, skills recognition, decent work and the participation of women.
Articles & Factsheets
2013
Towards a model apprenticeship framework - a comparative analysis of nationals apprenticeship systems
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
English
The ILO and World Bank in 2012 jointly conducted a study to review international experience in apprenticeships and identify good practice principles based on the cross-country analysis. This report contains case studies on eleven countries’ apprenticeship systems, a cross-case analysis and the development of a framework for a model apprenticeship system.
Studies & Tools
2013
Revisiting global trends in TVET: Reflections on theory and practice
United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
English
The essays presented in this publication are complementary to the UNESCO forthcoming volume on global TVET trends and issues in UNESCO’s new Education on the Move series.
Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (OECD)
English
How do apprenticeships and other forms of workplace learning help people to make a successful transition from school to work?
Studies & Tools
2013
Das duale System in Deutschland - Vorbild für einen Transfer ins Ausland?
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Dieter Euler
Deutsch
Die vorliegende Expertise zeigt, woran ein differenzierter Transfer anknüpfen kann. Das duale Berufsbildungssystem wurde zu diesem Zweck in elf Komponenten zerlegt, die sich auch einzeln betrachten lassen: Wie steht es mit der Finanzierung des dualen Systems? Wie lassen sich Theorie und betriebliche Praxis sinnvoll kombinieren? Wie werden Prüfungen abgenommen?
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2013
Skills development in middle level occupations: the role of apprenticeship training
IZA Policy Paper
Robert I.Lerman
English
This paper examines the diversity of approaches to apprenticeship and related training for middle-level occupations and highlights empirical and policy research results concerning the advantages of apprenticeship training for intermediate level skills, jobs, and careers.
Studies & Tools
2013
Work-based Learning in Europe - Practices and Policy Pointers
European Commission (EC)
English
This policy handbook is one of the European Commission contributions to strengthen work-based learning (WBL) in initial vocational education and training (IVET) . The aim of the Commission was to produce policy guidance illustrated by concrete practices from the Member States which can be used by policymakers and practioners to introduce or reinforce workbased learning elements in vocational education and training (VET).
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Ute Clement
Deutsch
Die berufliche Bildung wird im Vergleich zur allgemeinen bzw. akademischen Bildung ausnahmslos als second-best-option wahrgenommen. Dies führt dazu, dass die berufliche Bildung in deutlich geringerem Umfang als Bildungsweg und damit auch als Karrierebaustein nachgefragt wird. Dieses Bildungswahlverhalten hat eine ganze Reihe kritischer Implikationen auf der individuellen, betrieblichen und gesamtgesellschaftlichen Ebene.
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2013
Vocational Education and Training - Evaluation results, findings and conclusions
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Martina Vahlhaus
English
In 2010/2011, GIZ’s Monitoring and Evaluation Unit focused its activities on the subject area of vocational education and training on behalf of BMZ. To determine the effectiveness of programmes in partner countries, the findings of 12 independent, individual evaluations were compiled in an evaluation synthesis in 2012.
Studies & Tools
2014
Work-based learning: a handbook for policy makers and social partners in ETF partner countries
European Training Foundation (ETF)
Richard Sweet
English
This handbook has been written to help policy makers and social partners to understand some of the ways in which learning in the workplace can be encouraged and how its quality can be improved. It is also intended to help them to understand some of the ways that such learning can be organised in a structured way so that it benefits learners, enterprises and employees, and so that it provides wider benefits for the labour market and the economy as a whole.
Studies & Tools
2014
Success factors for the Dual VET System - Possibilities for Know-how-transfer - Report
Institut für Bildungsforschung der Wirtschaft (ibw)
Wolfgang Bliem,
Alexander Petanovitsch,
Kurt Schmid
English
The study is dedicated to identifying central success factors, and thus forms the support structure for any further work or decision process. The study purposely does not give any recommendations for the actual design of a vocational training system in individual countries; it is intended rather to only show the relevant approaches and the different possibilities for designing apprenticeship.
Studies & Tools
2014
Erfolgsfaktoren der dualen Ausbildung Transfermöglichkeiten
Institut für Bildungsforschung der Wirtschaft (ibw)
Wolfgang Bliem,
Alexander Petanovitsch,
Kurt Schmid
Deutsch
Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich der Identifizierung dieser zentralen Erfolgsfaktoren und bildet damit eine Unterstützung für den weiteren Arbeits- und Entscheidungsprozess. Die Studie gibt dezidiert keine Empfehlung für die tatsächliche Ausgestaltung des Berufsbildungssystems in einzelnen Ländern, sondern will relevante Ansatzpunkte und unterschiedliche Möglichkeiten für die Ausgestaltung einer Lehrlingsausbildung aufzeigen.
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2014
Attractiveness of vocational education and training: Permeability, successful school-to-work transition and international mobility
Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BiBB)
Markus Linten,
Sabine Prüstel,
Christian Woll,
Uta Roth,
Alix Wurdak
English
Selected bibliography: Interesting and relevant publications from around the world that showcase the different approaches countries have taken to this topic.
Studies & Tools
2014
Improving the Image of Technical and Vocational Education and Training - A synthesis
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Ute Clement
English
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET)
is perceived in developing, emerging and even in industrial countries as a ‘second-best option’ in comparison to general or academic education. As a consequence, TVET is less seen as an educational option therefore as a step back on the career path. This educational choice has a range of critical implications on the individual, business and societal levels. Since this situation has been recognised for quite a while, it is remarkable that there has hardly been any empirical research done on this topic.
Studies & Tools
2014
Toolkit - Lernen und Arbeiten in der informellen Wirtschaft
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Sektorvorhaben Berufliche Bildung
Deutsch
Das Toolkit bietet einen strukturierten Überblick zum Stand der Forschung, zu den Akteuren und zur aktuellen entwicklungspolitischen Praxis auf diesem Gebiet. Es enthält Einführungstexte und Projektbeschreibungen mit lessons learnt sowie zahlreiche Hinweise zu weiterführender Literatur. Damit eröffnet es Ihnen den Zugang zu einem reichen Wissens- und Erfahrungsschatz. (www.giz.de/toolkit-informelle-wirtschaft)
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2014
Toolkit - Learning and Working in the informal economy
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Sektorvorhaben Berufliche Bildung
English
This Toolkit provides a structured overview on current research, actors as well as practial examples . The toolkit consists of project descriptions, lessons learnt and further reading recommendations.
Die Guidelines bieten Informationen zu Grundsätzen, Erfahrungen und Wissensbeständen der Arbeit der GIZ im Bereich Berufsbildung. Sie zeigen die Reichweite der Aufgaben, beschreiben mögliche Leistungen in diesem Bereich und illustrieren diese anhand von konkreten Fallbeispielen.
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2014
Using Benefit Cost Calculations to Assess Returns from Apprenticeship Investment in India: Selected SME Case studies
International Labour Organisation (ILO)
Sandra Rothboek
English
This document presents a method, a social marketing tool, which gives the empirical evidence that there is a business case for apprenticeshipps and can be utilized to promote apprenticeships. The method was adapted to the Indian SMEs environment, where usually data collection at enterprise levels is very limited and is bosed on five case studies from various industries (light and heavy manufacturing, the retail and hotel industry).
Studies & Tools
2014
Diagnóstico Igualdad de género en los Institutos de Formación Profesional de América Central y República Dominicana
CINTERFOR
Spanish
Este estudio permite una aproximación a la situación y tendencias en materia de igualdad entre géneros en el seno de los institutos de formación profesional de América Central y República Dominicana.
Studies & Tools
2015
The German VET System: Exportable Blueprint or Food for Thought?
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Dieter Euler,
Clemens Wieland
English
The article offers an approach where the dual system is broken down into 11 distinct elements, each of which can be described and examined with regard to its transferability.
Studies & Tools
2015
Governance and Financing of cooperative Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) - Strengthening the role of private actors and associations
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Volker Bank,
Marius Busemeyer,
Dieter Dohmen,
Dietmar Frommberger
English
This study deals with key features and approaches of governance and financing of Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) between state and market in the development work.
Studies & Tools
2015
Governance und Finanzierung kooperativer Berufsbildung – Die Rolle von privaten Akteuren und Verbänden stärken
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Volker Bank,
Marius Busemeyer,
Dieter Dohmen,
Dietmar Frommberger
Deutsch
In dieser Studie geht es um zentrale Merkmale und Ansätze der Steuerung und Finanzierung beruflicher Bildung zwischen Staat und Markt in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit.
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2015
Aufbau und Funktion nationaler Berufsbildungsagenturen - Eine explorative Untersuchung unter Einbezug von Fallbeispielen
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Dietmar Frommberger
Deutsch
In der vorliegenden Untersuchung wird auf der Basis einschlägiger Literatur und unter Berücksichtigung diverser Fallbeispiele der Frage nachgegangen, mit welchen Governanceprinzipien nationale Berufsbildungsstrukturen weiterentwickelt werden und welche Aufgaben und Funktionen in diesem Zusammenhang Nationalen Berufsbildungsagenturen zukommen können.
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2015
Apprenticeship Training in Spain –
a cost-effective model for firms?
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Stefan C. Wolter,
Samuel Mühlemann
English
This study simulates the costs and benefits for Spanish firms that would train Swiss-style dual model in ten occupations
in very different economic sectors under. To be able to simulate these outcomes, we use data from Switzerland, where, over a decade, more than twenty thousand training and nontraining firms have provided extensive data on their investments, benefits of training, and reasons for either training or refraining from doing so. We use this data as the base for our simulations, combining it with labour market data from Italy. The advantage of simulating, rather than measuring cost and benefits, is that we can choose different models and parameters and, therefore, measure the sensitivity of outcomes for these assumptions. This allows us not only to make a statement about whether training is beneficial but also to define both the framework and the parameters of a hypothetical model that would work.
Studies & Tools
2016
Vocational and Professional Education and Training in Switzerland:
Success factors and challenges for sustainable implementation abroad
hep verlag ag
Rudolf H. Strahm,
Bruno H. Geiger,
Cornelia Oertle,
Erik Swars
English
Why Swiss dual track education system has an excellent reputation throughout the world? What success factors we have to consider and why they play a pivotal role in its implementation abroad? Various examples, enumerated from all over the world show how to start sustainable implementation. This book is written for the English speaking foreign delegates, executives’ professionals in the field of education, skill development and entrepreneurship.
Studies & Tools
2016
Exportartikel Berufsbildung? Internationale Bildungszusammenarbeit zwischen Armutsreduktion und Wirtschaftsförderung
hep verlag ag, Bern
Matthias Jäger,
Markus Maurer,
Martin Fässler
Deutsch
Berufsbildung ist seit den 1950er-Jahren ein wichtiges Standbein der schweizerischen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Nun verleiht ihr die in jüngster Zeit weltweit zunehmende Jugendarbeitslosigkeit neue Popularität. Entwicklungspolitische Zielvorgaben, internationale Megatrends und unterschiedliche Konzepte stellen die Berufsbildung vor grosse Herausforderungen. Die Autoren diskutieren Praxis und Potential bezüglich der Bildungszusammenarbeit im Spannungsfeld zwischen Armutsreduktion und Wirtschaftsförderung. Dabei schlagen sie den Bogen von den ersten internationalen Berufsbildungsprojekten bis zu einer nächsten Projektgeneration.
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2016
Tertiary Vocational Education in Europe – Examples from Six Education Systems
Bundesinstitut für Berufsbildung (BiBB)
Ute Hippach-Schneider,
Verena Schneider
English
This publication summarises the most important results from the first phase of the research project “Arbeitsbasiertes Lernen im tertiären Bildungsbereich – eine international vergleichende Analyse von Modellen und Funktionen” [“
Work-based learning in the tertiary education sector – an international comparative analysis of models and functions”] (https://www.bibb.de/en/24108.php; accessed 14.10.2015)
Studies & Tools
2016
The Employer’s Dilemma: Employer engagement and progress in vocational education and training reforms
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Ursula Renold,
Katherine Caves
English
Employer engagement is a critical part of vocational education and training (VET). However, we know little about forms of employer engagement in the implementation of VET reforms. Employers can be advisors, or can be given roles and responsibilities throughout the cycle of VET processes. We follow eight international VET reforms through their first year.
Studies & Tools
2016
Rolle und Qualifizierung des betrieblichen Ausbildungspersonals in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Andreas Dernbach,
Fritz Feder,
Julia Schmidt
Deutsch
Die Handreichung richtet sich an Praktiker und Entscheidungsträger, die mit Rolle, Aufgaben und Qualifizierung von Lehr- und Ausbildungspersonal im Rahmen der EZ befasst sind. Das Lehr- und Ausbildungspersonal spielt bei der Gestaltung arbeitsmarktorientierter Berufsbildung, aber auch bei der Umsetzung von Reformen in Berufsbildungssystemen eine entscheidende Rolle.
Studien & Arbeitshilfen
2016
Berufliche Bildung und Qualifizierung im Kontext von Flucht und Migration
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Deutsch
Strategy & Policy Paper
2016
Lehrlingswesen braucht keine Subventionen
Swiss Coordination Centre for Research in Education (skbf/csre)
Stefan C. Wolter
Deutsch
Die Schweizer Erfahrungen mit der Berufsbildungs-Finanzierung verdienen grössere internationale Beachtung.
Artikel & Factsheets
2017
The Role of the Private Sector in Vocational and Educational Training - Developments and Success Factors in Selected Countries
Economic Policy Forum (EPF)
English
This Policy Paper analyses the VET system in four selected countries – namely India, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and Vietnam. The study focuses on the private sector engagement in the four selected countries. It identifies developments and good practices and derives transnational policy recommendations to strengthen the role of the private sector.
Studies & Tools
2017
Meet the Need – The Role of Vocational Education and Training for the Youth Labour Market
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Thomas Bolli,
Maria Esther Egg,
Ladina Rageth
English
To fight negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world foster vo- cational education and training programmes (VET). We therefore investigate how the share of three upper secondary education programmes, i.e. general education, school-based VET, and dual VET, affect the labour market of 15- to 24-year-olds.
Studies & Tools
2017
Skills Development in Economic Development Cooperation
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO)
English
This position paper explains SECO’s approach to skills development within its economic development cooperation and is addressed to a broader public and partners in Switzerland and abroad.
Strategy & Policy Paper
2017
The New Constitution and its Impact on TVET Governance in Nepal: A report in support of developing understanding and finding the way forward for federalizing the TVET sector in Nepal
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Ursula Renold
Katherine Caves
English
This report maps out how Nepal’s new constitution (NC) explicitly and implicitly foresees the federalization of the technical vocational education and training (TVET) sector, and outlines how that sector can best be federalised. Our goal is to broaden the understanding of key stakeholders in the Nepali TVET sector on the issues of equitable, effective and efficient TVET services in a federalised context. The insights in this report are based on consultation with key leaders and stakeholders in Nepal’s TVET system, along with current research and scholarship on TVET governance plus the expert’s own experiences with constitutional reforms and TVET federalization in Switzerland and Germany.
Articles & Factsheets
2017
Swiss Style Vocational Education and Training
Accenture
Swiss American Chamber of Commerce
GAN
ETH Zurich - KOF
English
In the following pages, you will learn what “apprenticeship” means in in the Swiss education system (we are aware that there are many different understandings of “apprenticeship”), you will read stories from great companies with great success in training the right people for the right jobs—at no cost to the young people (even with a small salary!) and with a positive business case for the companies (IRR 7-10% on average). In the following pages, you will read from seven visionary governors who plan to make great strides in closing the skills gap and providing high-quality, high-skilled jobs to the next generation. And you will read intimate personal stories from very successful businesspeople who started their careers as apprentices.
Study & Tools
2017
WEBINAR on
‘What is the Business Case of Investing in Vocational Education and Training (VET)?’
Peter Rechmann November 30, 2017
GO.VET
Peter Rechmann, BIBB
English
German companies contribute extensively towards the training of apprentices annually. The Dual System of Training - to its merit - addresses the issue by bringing Industry and Government together as co-partners & co-funders of VET programmes. There is lots to gain from their success especially for complex VET systems in emerging and developing countries. This Webinar discusses the following questions: 1) How Apprenticeships in Germany works? 2) What is the business case for companies to invest in vocational education & training? 3) What kind of short term and long term benefits do German companies gain from VET? 4) How is this relevant for non dual based VET systems?
Webinar
2017
So Similar and Yet So Different: A Comparative Analysis of a Firm’s Cost and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training in Austria and Switzerland.
IZA Institute of Labour Economics
Luca Moretti,
Martin Mayerl,
Samuel Muehlemann,
Peter Schlögl,
Stefan C. Wolter
English
The authors compare a firm’s costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of similarities, including an extensive vocational education and training (VET) system, and a common border, there are some important institutional differences. On average, a Swiss firm generates a net profit of 3400 Euro per apprentice and per year of training, while an Austrian firm incurs net costs of 4200 Euro. Applying matching models, we find that this difference is largely driven by a higher relative apprentice pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school-based VET pathways. However, Austrian firms can still generate a return on their training investment, partly due to wage subsidies, but mostly by retaining a high share of apprentices as skilled workers, and thereby save on future hiring costs.
Studies & Tools
2017
Incentives for apprenticeship
OECD
Małgorzata Kuczera
English
While an apprenticeship is potentially very beneficial to students, employers and economies, many countries face difficulties in encouraging companies to provide apprenticeship places, and individuals to enter apprenticeship programmes. To encourage companies to provide apprenticeships, the government, and sometimes social partners, promote apprenticeships through a wide range of incentives, including financial incentives, such as subsidies and tax breaks, and non-financial incentives, such as adjustments in
apprenticeship design to make it more attractive to employers. While financial incentives are common, their effect is often modest and depends on the amount of financial support and allocation criteria. Schemes that target specific sectors and are supported by social partners tend to be more successful. However, nonfinancial
measures, which are often less costly than financial incentives, can also be helpful in increasing the provision of apprenticeships and merit further consideration.
Studies & Tools
2018
Apprenticeship Training in Italy –
a cost-effective model for firms?
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Samuel Mühlemann,
Stefan C. Wolter,
Eva Joho
English
This study simulates the costs and benefits for Italian firms that would train Swiss-style dual model in ten occupations
in very different economic sectors under. To be able to simulate these outcomes, we use data from Switzerland, where, over a decade, more than twenty thousand training and nontraining firms have provided extensive data on their investments, benefits of training, and reasons for either training or refraining from doing so. We use this data as the base for our simulations, combining it with labour market data from Italy. The advantage of simulating, rather than measuring cost and benefits, is that we can choose different models and parameters and, therefore, measure the sensitivity of outcomes for these assumptions. This allows us not only to make a statement about whether training is beneficial but also to define both the framework and the parameters of a hypothetical model that would work.
Studies & Tools
2018
Apprenticeship Training in England –
a cost-effective model for firms?
Bertelsmann Stiftung
Stefan C. Wolter,
Eva Joho
English
This study simulates the costs and benefits for English firms that would train Swiss-style dual model in ten occupations
in very different economic sectors under. To be able to simulate these outcomes, we use data from Switzerland, where, over a decade, more than twenty thousand training and nontraining firms have provided extensive data on their investments, benefits of training, and reasons for either training or refraining from doing so. We use this data as the base for our simulations, combining it with labour market data from Italy. The advantage of simulating, rather than measuring cost and benefits, is that we can choose different models and parameters and, therefore, measure the sensitivity of outcomes for these assumptions. This allows us not only to make a statement about whether training is beneficial but also to define both the framework and the parameters of a hypothetical model that would work.
Studies & Tools
2018
Does it Pay for Firms? Costs and Benefits of the Skills Future Earn and Learn Programme in Singapore
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Ursula Renold,
Thomas Bolli,
Stefan C. Wolter
English
The SkillsFuture Earn and Learn Programme (ELP) targets graduates from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) and Polytechnics. During the programme’s 12-to-18-month duration, ELP participants spend about 20% of their time in classroom education at the ITE and Polytechnics and 80% in structured workplace training. In order to introduce the programme in 2015, participation of both students and firms was subsidized. This raises the question of whether these subsidies are necessary in the long run, so this research project aims to measure the costs and benefits of the ELP from the perspective of firms. The methodology uses a mixed-method design that combines quantitative surveys of both participating and non-participating firms with qualitative interviews among firms that participate in the ELP.
Studies & Tools
2018
Creating New Positions? Direct and Indirect Effects of a Subsidized Apprenticeship Program
Bruno Crepon,
Patrick Premand
English
Evaluations of employment programs usually focus on direct impacts on participants, but potential indirect effects are rarely quantified. This paper analyzes the impact of a subsidized apprenticeship program in Côte d’Ivoire. The experiment simultaneously randomized whether apprenticeship positions opened by firms were filled by the program, and whether interested youths were assigned to a formal apprenticeship. This design allows for estimating whether individuals forgo other apprenticeship opportunities (windfall effects), and whether firms replace other apprentices with program participants (substitution effects). We find both effects to be moderate. A framework shows howtheycombine: overall, 0.74 to 0.77 apprenticeship position is created per subsidized apprentice. Short term impacts on youth earnings were not significant. However, the net value of work provided by apprentices in firms increased, pointing to large indirect effects of the program.
Studies & Tools
2018
Financing work-based learning
as part of vocational education reform - A handbook for policy makers and social partners
ETF
Richard Sweet
English
This handbook will help policy makers and social partners to look at
the issues involved in financing work-based learning, and to make
better choices between the policy options that face them when
designing and improving programmes. Effective financing is a key
way to achieve goals such as improved access and quality.
Topics covered: direct and indirect costs, raising and distributing of funds, costs and benefits of programs, management and steering the financing.
Studies & Tools
2018
How and Why Does the Private Sector
Participate in Vocational Education and Training? A Descriptive Case Study of VET Projects in Albania and Kosovo
Linda Wanklin
English
In recent years, there has been a return in policy interest for innovative approaches in vocational education and training (VET). In the less theoretical, more pragmatic world of development cooperation, the most relevant directives for the development of successful VET building blocks include, among others, the engagement with the private sector, work-based learning, and the inclusion of all relevant stakeholders. By analysing the two cases of Albania and Kosovo, this thesis aims to answer the questions of how and why the private sector participates in VET projects. To achieve this, VET projects financed by donor countries with dual VET systems, namely Austria (ADA), Germany (BMZ), and Switzerland (SDC), are used as the central units of analysis. The research question is answered by using a qualitative research method and reference frameworks elaborated by Euler (2017) and Byers et al. (2016). This descriptive study seeks to systematically present the activities carried out within each area of engagement with the private sector and to outline the motivations and objectives of the private sector to participate in VET projects. The findings should broaden the “big picture” understanding of how the private sector can be incorporated as a strategic partner in VET projects and create momentum for further research projects.
Studies & Tools
2019
Local Norms Describing the Role of the
State and the Private Provision of Training
Swiss Leading House on the Economics of Education, Firm Behaviour and Training Policies
Andreas Kuhn,
Jürg Schweri,
Stefan C. Wolter
English
Apprenticeship systems are essentially based on the voluntary participation of firms that provide (and usually also finance) training positions, often incurring considerable net training costs. One potential, yet under-researched explanation for this behavior is that firms act in accordance with the norms and expectations they face with in the local labor market in which they operate.
Studies & Tools
2019
Implementation of the Serbian Law on Dual Education First Report on Drivers and Barriers in the Pre-Implementation Phase - Executive Summary
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Ursula Renold,
Katherine M. Caves, Karina Maldonado-Mariscal,
Maria Esther Oswald-Egg,
Jasminka Markovic,
Zaklina Veselinovic, Dejan Stankovic,
Ivana Ceneric,
Milica Todorovic
English
Implementation of the Serbian Law on Dual Education; First Report on Barriers and Drivers in the Pre-Implementation Phase; Executive Summary
Studies & Tools
2019
Implementation of the Serbian Law on Dual Education First Report on Drivers and Barriers in the Pre-Implementation Phase - Executive Summary Serbian
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Ursula Renold,
Katherine M. Caves, Karina Maldonado-Mariscal,
Maria Esther Oswald-Egg,
Jasminka Markovic,
Zaklina Veselinovic, Dejan Stankovic,
Ivana Ceneric,
Milica Todorovic
Serbian
Implementation of the Serbian Law on Dual Education; First Report on Barriers and Drivers in the Pre-Implementation Phase; Executive Summary; Serbian
Studies & Tools
2019
Implementation of the Serbian Law on Dual Education First Report on Drivers and Barriers in the Pre-Implementation Phase
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Ursula Renold,
Katherine M. Caves, Karina Maldonado-Mariscal,
Maria Esther Oswald-Egg,
Jasminka Markovic,
Zaklina Veselinovic, Dejan Stankovic,
Ivana Ceneric,
Milica Todorovic
English
Implementation of the Serbian Law on Dual Education; First Report on Barriers and Drivers in the Pre-Implementation Phase; interviews; schools; students and parents; companies
Studies & Tools
2019
Return on investment or an
investment without return? Long version
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Basil Schläpfer,
Roman Troxler
English
A cost-benefit ratio analysis of in-company training in Pakistan; Build4Skills; costs and benefits
Studies & Tools
2019
Return on investment or an
investment without return? Short version
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Basil Schläpfer,
Roman Troxler
English
A cost-benefit ratio analysis of in-company training in Pakistan; Build4Skills; costs and benefits
Studies & Tools
2019
Future ASEAN Agenda for TVET
Developed by the regional working group
“Business and industry cooperation in TVET”
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Adrianus Yoza Aprilio,
Bui Thi Ninh,
Wanna Dulyasittiporn,
Eng Sopheap,
Palaniappan Joseph,
Le Viet Hai,
Carlo C. Mendoza,
Bahrin Mohammed,
Pech Bolene,
Soukhapangna Phengthalangsy,
Siti Rozaimeriyanty
DSLJ Hj Abd Rahman, Xaybandith Rasphone, Bharkbhum Skolpap,
Aung Kyaw Soe,
Aung Kyi Soe,
Phouxay Thepphavong, Manop Thongsaeng,
Maria Amalia Tiglayao-Cayanan,
Yunus Triyonggo,
Fook Keong Stephen Yee
English
Over the course of 5 workshops between June 2018 and March 2019 the regional working group “Business and industry cooperation in TVET” discussed how to make TVET in the ASEAN region fit for
the future. The group agreed on 45 recommendations across nine thematic headers, which are at the heart of the Future ASEAN Agenda for TVET: Enhancing the relevance and quality of TVET regulations and strategies; Establishing public-private models for skill standard development and assessments; Strengthening the leadership of business membership organisations in TVET; Rebranding TVET; Mobilizing companies to engage in TVET; Ensuring sufficient funding for TVET; Improving the quality of training delivery; Deepening the collaboration of TVET schools with business and industry; Intensifying research on TVET and future skills
needs
Strategy & Policy Paper
2019
Meeting in the middle
TVET programs’
education-employment linkage
in developing contexts
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Katherine Caves,
Andrea Ghisletta,
Johanna Kemper,
Ursula Renold
English
Technical 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 delivery), and curriculum updating. The KOF Education-Employment Linkage Index measures linkage at every function in a TVET program where actors from the two systems interact, aggregating those into processes and phases and eventually an index score. We apply that index to the largest upper-secondary TVET programs in Benin, Chile, Costa Rica, and Nepal. We find that Benin has relatively high education-employment linkage, while the other three countries score very low. Benin’s situation is unique because its TVET program is moving from employer-led to linked, rather than the typical employer integration into an education-based program. Other countries with large informal economies, low formal education and training rates, and existing non-formal employer-led training may be able to implement similar approaches using functionally equivalent institutions. Furthermore, we summarize the results of discussions with policy-maker focus groups in the four case study countries.
Studies & Tools
2019
Theoretical and Methodological Framework for Measuring the Robustness of Social Institutions in Education and Training
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Ursula Renold,
Ladina Rageth,
Katherine Caves,
Jutta Buergi
English
Social institutions, new institutionalism, education and training, vocational education and training programs, functional equivalents
Studies & Tools
2019
Has the Relationship between
Formal Education and the Formal
Employment Sector in Nepal
changed between 1995 and 2014?
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Thomas Bolli,
Mahesh Nath Parajuli,
Ursula Renold
English
This 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 nonagricultural sector, while primary and secondary education has little relationship with wageemployment. However, primary, secondary and tertiary education all increase an extended measure of formal sector employment that accounts for company registration and size. This highlights the relevance of choosing the appropriate measure of formal sector employment. The strength of the relationship between completed primary and secondary education and formal sector employment has decreased over time. This decrease provides suggestive evidence that the relative returns to formal education in the informal sector have increased, implying that the informal employment sector provides relatively more opportunities in 2014 than 20 years earlier. The relationship between tertiary education and wage-employment has also decreased but the relationship between tertiary education and the extended measure of formal sector employment has remained stable. This might reflect the large share of tertiary educated working in government related sectors.
