 A Configurational Analysis of Vocational Education and Training Programmes: Types of Education-Employment Linkage and their Explanatory PowerLadina Rageth ()
No 18-442, KOF Working papers from KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich Abstract: To deepen scholarly understanding of unfavourable youth labour market outcomes of vocational education and training (VET) programmes, this paper develops an empirical typology of VET programmes in developed countries. Building on a theoretical framework that draws on the theory of social systems, the paper analyses the linkage between actors from the education and employment systems in VET in preventing unfavourable youth labour market outcomes, such as unemployment and skills mismatch. Based on empirical data on the largest upper-secondary VET programmes in 18 countries or states within them, this paper identifies five real types of VET programmes. These real types represent different combinations of the education-employment linkage in any process phase of curriculum design, application, and updating. Importantly, thispaper provides evidence that only real type VET programmes with a strong education-employment linkage throughout the entire curriculum process are associated with high youth labour market integration. Keywords: VET; Vocational Education and Training; Typology; Qualitative Comparative Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kof:wpskof:18-442 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in KOF Working papers from KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich Contact information at EDIRC. |
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