A VET degree is advantageous, not only because of higher wages, but also because it improves access to jobs and leads to more job stability. This results in shorter unemployment and longer employment. More in our Leading House WP No. 153: repec.business.uzh.ch/RePEc/iso/lead…

What do 8 education experts have to say about the future of education? Read our Global Perspectives piece here featuring @PasiSahlberg Bob Schwartz Dylan Wiliam @URenold and more! bit.ly/2C3FRpc

Radio story on CareerWise Colorado: Colorado Wants To Enroll 1 In 10 Of All Students In Apprenticeships By 2027 cpr.org/news/story/col…

New article on CareerWise Colorado in The Atlantic theatlantic.com/business/archi…

KOF Youth Labour Market Index: recovery on the #youth #labour #market in 2016. Conditions in Switzerland remain highly encouraging. Top ten list unchanged compared to 2015 kof.ethz.ch/en/news-and-ev… #KOFYLMI

New study! "System of Opportunity," on next steps for the fantastic CareerWise Colorado youth #apprenticeship initiative in Colorado research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/hand…

New cost-benefit simulation for apprenticeship training in Italy: firms profit from training apprentices, when (1) apprenticeships take 3 years (2) apprentice wages are lower than 50% of a skilled workers’ wage (3) firms can retain apprentices afterwards. educationeconomics.uzh.ch/en/Aktuelles/1…

Did you know: Apprenticeship training makes firms more innovative. For more insights read our new paper in „Journal of Business Economics“.

TREE data Universität Bern allow insights into student’s careers after leaving compulsory school. 14 years later, 77% are working, 16% still in education & 7% neither economically active nor in education. The below graph shows what the cohort did in the meantime. tree.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/f…

"When you take a young person and put them in a business, they rise to the occasion. They are more capable and productive than we give credit for.” - Noel Ginsburg #ApprenticeshipsAtAEI #Youthapprenticeship #workforcedevelopment #earnwhileyoulearn

Are you interested in an #internship at KOF? Your task is to help conducting a meta-analysis of the impact of vocational training on the youth labour-market situation in low- and middle-income countries and implement an expert Survey apply.refline.ch/845721/6793/pu… @URenold

At a panel discussion organized by the American Enterprise Institute, Uschi Backes-Gellner discussed with Noel Ginsburg, Bob Hottman & Joe Fuller what lessons could be learned from VET in Europe & Colorado to create a viable US apprenticeship system. educationeconomics.uzh.ch/en/Aktuelles/0…

cemets.ethz.ch/cemets-news/20… New CEMETS blog: Internships improve income among university graduates, and do so building transferable skills, not necessarily by increasing specific skills or signaling.

New working paper: Education-employment linkage in Nepal, Benin, Costa Rica, and Chile is low in school-based #TVET programs. Benin's CQP #apprenticeship program is different, and might hint at an interesting new way forward. research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/hand…

New working paper: #TVET and youth #apprenticeship are hard to compare because they comprise different social institutions. This framework helps identify key #institutions based on equivalent functions, then assess robustness using #sociology theory. research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/hand…

New study by Rinawi & @UschiBac finds a trade-off for investments in more or less specific occupations: a higher occupational specificity is associated (1) with a lower job mobility & a longer period of unemployment but (2) also with higher wages. educationeconomics.uzh.ch/en/Aktuelles/1…

Applications for the 2020 CEMETS Summer Institute (June 10-19) are now live! ethzurich.eventsair.com/cemets20/reg

cemets.ethz.ch/cemets-news/20… New blog post: English summary of our Apprenticeship Pulse study. What kind of training did Swiss apprentices do during lockdown?

cemets.ethz.ch/cemets-news/20… #systemicracism

We've been measuring the "pulse" of Swiss #apprenticeship since the first COVID-19 lockdown in April, these are the newest results: cemets.ethz.ch/cemets-news/20…