Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

Sowohl in der Politik als auch in der bisherigen Forschung wird betont, dass berufsspezifische Ausbildungen einen Vorteil gegenüber allgemeinen Bildungsgängen haben, indem sie jungen Leuten den Übergang vom Bildungs- ins Berufssystem erleichtern. Eric A. Hanushek, Stanford University, Ludger...

Sowohl in der Politik als auch in der bisherigen Forschung wird betont, dass berufsspezifische Ausbildungen einen Vorteil gegenüber allgemeinen Bildungsgängen haben, indem sie jungen Leuten den Übergang vom Bildungs- ins Berufssystem erleichtern. Eric A. Hanushek, Stanford University, Ludger...

The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance. The federal government's involvement through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 reinforces the prior movement of many states toward policies based on...

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of human capital, and evidence incorporating direct...

Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potentialsources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in amore diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that...