Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in)equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education

Margarita Chudnovskaya, Erik Nylander and Rebecca Ye

Chapter 6 in A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality, 2023, pp 85-101 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Sweden’s labor market is notable for significant gender segregation combined with a high labor force participation among men and women. This chapter explores gender segregation in relation to Higher Vocational Education (HVE), a form of Swedish post-secondary vocational education. HVE is a rapidly expanding, publicly-funded form of adult vocational education and training. One of its mandates is to address gender segregation in the labor market by (re-)training workers for industries where their gender is under-represented. This chapter examines the gender inequality in field of study in this vocational educational form using Swedish register data for all HVE participants (N=278,107) in years 2005-2019. We show that men and women make starkly different choices with regard to field of study. We examine the factors associated with gender typical and a-typical choices such as previous education, employment, and socio-demographic variables.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Education; Geography; Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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