Meeting in the Middle: TVET Programs’ Education–Employment Linkage at Different Stages of Development

Katherine Caves (), Andrea Ghisletta, Johanna Mirka Kemper, Patrick McDonald and Ursula Renold
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Andrea Ghisletta: Chair of Applied Econometrics, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Basel, 4002 Basel, Switzerland
Johanna Mirka Kemper: Chair of Education Systems, Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Patrick McDonald: Chair of Education Systems, Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Ursula Renold: Chair of Education Systems, Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland

Social Sciences, 2021, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-19

Abstract: 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 Education–Employment Linkage Index measures linkage for 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 this 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.

Keywords: vocational education and training; VET; TVET; education–employment linkage; development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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