The effects of career and technical education: Evidence from the Connecticut technical high school system

EJ Brunner, SM Dougherty, SL Ross - Review of Economics and …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
We examine the effect of attending stand-alone technical high schools in Connecticut using
regression discontinuity. Male students are 10 percentage points more likely to graduate …

Does the import of green products encourage green technology innovation? Empirical evidence from China

J Chen, L Wu, L Hao, X Yu, D Streimikiene - Technological Forecasting and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Green technology innovation capability is an important support for the realisation of
Sustainable Development Goals, and it is of great significance to discuss the impact of green …

Hard and soft skills in vocational training: Experimental evidence from Colombia

F Barrera-Osorio, A Kugler… - The World Bank Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This paper studies the effects of an oversubscribed job-training program on skills and labor-
market outcomes using both survey and administrative data. Overall, vocational training …

Dissecting the compensation conundrum: a machine learning-based prognostication of key determinants in a complex labor market

R Jaiswal, S Gupta, AK Tiwari - Management Decision, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Amidst the turbulent tides of geopolitical uncertainty and pandemic-induced
economic disruptions, the information technology industry grapples with alarming attrition …

Improving educational pathways to social mobility: evidence from Norway's reform 94

M Bertrand, M Mogstad… - Journal of Labor …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study the impacts of a major reform to vocational secondary education that aimed to
move beyond the trade-off between providing occupational skills and closing off academic …

Standing and attractiveness of vocational education and training in Finland: Focus on learning environments

H Rintala, P Nokelainen - Journal of Vocational Education & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This article discusses the standing and attractiveness of vocational education and training
(VET) in Finland. We argue that learning environments, along with the expectations for and …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Lost boys? Secondary education and crime

K Huttunen, T Pekkarinen, R Uusitalo… - Journal of Public …, 2023 - Elsevier
We study the effect of secondary education on criminal behavior of young men in Finland.
We exploit admission cut-offs in over-subscribed programs and estimate the effect of gaining …

Labor market returns to college major specificity

M Leighton, JD Speer - European Economic Review, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper develops a new approach to measuring human capital specificity, in the context
of college majors, and estimates its labor market return over a worker's life cycle. To …

Secondary vocational education and decent work in Indonesia: differences between urban and rural areas

S Choi, H Li, K Ogawa, Y Tanaka - International Journal of Training …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Indonesia has prioritized upper secondary vocational education since 2006. This study
examines the labour market outcomes of upper secondary vocational education in terms of …