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Does technical education improve academic outcomes? : evidence from Brazil

Elacqua, Gregory; Navarro-Palau, Patricia; Prada, Maria … - 2019

Despite the renewed interest in technical education, only a handful of studies analyze its effect on academic outcomes. In this paper we apply a regression discontinuity design to oversubscribed technical high school tracks in Pernambuco, Brazil, to identify the impact of technical education...

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Closing the gap between vocational and general education? : evidence from University Technical Colleges in England

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Terrier, Camille; … - 2023

Delivery of vocational education in schools is a controversial issue around the world and attempts to improve it have been tried for decades. A substantive innovation in vocational education provision came about in 2010 in England when a new form of hybrid schools was introduced that combine...

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Production scheduling theory : just where is it applicable?

Portougal, Victor; Robb, David John - 1997

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A product-market theory of industry-specific training

Gersbach, Hans (contributor); Schmutzler, Armin (contributor) - 2006

We develop a product market theory that explains why firms provide their workers with skills that are sufficiently … competition. Equilibria with and without training, and multiple equilibria can emerge. If competition is sufficiently soft and … returns to the number of trained workers decrease sufficiently, firms may invest in non-specific training if others do the …

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