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From Silos to Seamlessness: Towards a Cross-sectoral Funding Model for Post-compulsory Education and Training

Chapman, Bruce; Watson, Louise; Wheelahan, Leesa - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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The Adult Education Initiative in Sweden –Second Year Effects on Wage Earnings and the Influence on Branch Mobility

Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2003

earnings in 1999 and in 2000 as well as mobility between branches of employment. The estimated effects on wage earnings of the …, the earnings effects of the AEI is relatively more beneficial in 2000 than in 1999. Results on mobility indicate that AEI …

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Short Run Effects on Wage Earnings of the Adult Education Initiative in Sweden

Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2002

1999 is used as outcome variable. Bias caused by the selection process into programs is dealt with using two separate …

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Does Comprehensive Education Work for the Long-term Unemployed?

Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004

This paper evaluates the effects of comprehensive adult education on wage earnings of the long-term unemployed, an essentially unexplored issue. We use register data pertaining to a large sample of long-term unemployed persons in Sweden who either enrolled in the comprehensive adult education...

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The Long-term Earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training of the Unemployed

Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary school level. Despite the dominance of programs offering specific training, long-term relative...

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The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed

Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching a specific skill to ease the transition into employment. However, in 1997, the Swedish unemployed could choose general/theoretical training through enrollment in one year of full-time studies at the upper secondary school level....

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Using longitudinal data to evaluate publicly provided formal education for low skilled

Stenberg, Anders - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1262-1280

Modern societies would potentially reap large benefits from upgrading low skilled's education. However, this is difficult to put into practice because employers are reluctant to train low skilled and because low skilled are unwilling to participate. To circumvent this potential market...

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Does adult education at upper secondary level influence annual wage earnings?

Stenberg, Anders - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

Adult education at upper secondary level (AE) is an integral part of the Swedish educational system. Of the cohort born in 1970, about one third has at some point been registered in AE. This evaluation of AE is the first to use register data on the course credits actually attained. The results...

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Comprehensive Education or Vocational Training for the Unemployed?

Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005

The Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden was introduced in the autumn of 1997 and generated a massive expansion of subsidized adult comprehensive education. This paper uses data on a large sample of unemployed persons aged 25 to 55 to evaluate the effects of comprehensive upper secondary...

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An Evaluation of the Adult Education Initiative Relative Labor Market Training

Stenberg, Anders - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2003

1999 to compare the AEI and LMT for individuals that do not continue in education following program completion. Two … study the annual wage earnings of 1999 and 2000 and data on attachment to branches of employment before and after program … on wage earnings tended to be more advantageous for the AEI in 2000 rather than 1999, possibly implying a lag in the …

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