Education inequalities

C Farquharson, S McNally, I Tahir - Oxford Open Economics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Education is one of the most important predictors of people's life chances, sha** outcomes
like work and pay, health, and wealth. Explaining inequalities in educational outcomes, as …

Why do sectoral employment programs work? Lessons from WorkAdvance

LF Katz, J Roth, R Hendra… - Journal of Labor …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper examines the evidence from randomized evaluations of sector-focused training
programs that target low-wage workers and combine up-front screening, occupational and …

Competency-based learning and formative assessment feedback as precursors of college students' soft skills acquisition

D Alt, L Naamati-Schneider… - Studies in Higher …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In recent years, researchers have highlighted the importance of students' set of soft skills.
However, although deemed important, the integration of those skills into educational …

Labor market returns to vocational secondary education

M Silliman, H Virtanen - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2022 - aeaweb.org
We study labor market returns to vocational versus general secondary education using a
regression discontinuity design created by the centralized admissions process in Finland …

Social skill training with large language models

D Yang, C Ziems, W Held, O Shaikh… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
People rely on social skills like conflict resolution to communicate effectively and to thrive in
both work and personal life. However, practice environments for social skills are typically out …

Skills for the future? A life cycle perspective on systems of vocational education and training

A Chuan, CL Ibsen - ILR Review, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, the authors ask how the institutional design of vocational education and
training (VET) affects worker adaptability to changing skill demands over the life cycle. They …

Social skills and the individual wage growth of less educated workers

P Aghion, A Bergeaud, R Blundell, R Griffith - 2023 - econstor.eu
We use matched employee-employer data from the UK to highlight the importance of social
skills, including the ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with co …

School-based improvement in VET:“The 1,000 schools in vocational education and training project”

M Özer - Bartın University Journal of Faculty of Education, 2022 - dergipark.org.tr
Vocational education and training (VET) faces a significant transformation after the 2000s,
due to the widespread use of automation and artificial intelligence-based production …

Soft skills centrality in graduate studies offerings

MP García-Chitiva, JC Correa - Studies in Higher Education, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Is it possible to measure how critical soft skills like leadership or teamwork are from the
viewpoint of graduate studies offerings? This paper provides a conceptual and …

Stacking the deck for employment success: Labor market returns to stackable credentials

KE Meyer, KA Bird, BL Castleman - Journal of Human Resources, 2025 - jhr.uwpress.org
With rapid technological transformations to the labor market, many working adults return to
college after graduation to obtain additional training or credentials. Using a comparative …