Returns on Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Between Immediate Labour Market Preparation and Lifelong Employability

Autor/inn/en	Lavrijsen, Jeroen; Nicaise, Ides
Titel	Returns on Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Between Immediate Labour Market Preparation and Lifelong Employability
Quelle	In: International Review of Education, 63 (2017) 2, S.257-280 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0020-8566
DOI	10.1007/s11159-017-9630-9
Schlagwörter	Outcomes of Education; Vocational Education; Labor Market; Career Development; Employment Potential; Specialization; Lifelong Learning; Job Skills; Skill Development; Secondary Education; Resistance to Change; International Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Berufsentwicklung; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Arbeitsteilige Spezialisierung; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Produktive Fertigkeit; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Sekundarbereich
Abstract	An important issue in the design of secondary-level education is the balance between conveying general and occupation-specific (vocational) skills. On the one hand, vocationally oriented programmes, providing occupation-specific skills with immediate labour market relevance, have repeatedly been shown to secure safe pathways into employment. On the other hand, these programmes tend to put less emphasis on developing general knowledge, skills and competencies, including numeracy and literacy, which are foundational to lifelong learning. Hence, when the needs of the labour market change, employees who opted for a vocational track when they were at secondary school risk being less flexible in adapting to such changes later in their career. The authors of this article examine whether this results in a trade-off between short-term gains and long-term losses by considering differences in the labour market careers of vocationally and generally educated respondents in the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). Their results suggest that early labour market benefits of vocational specialisation decrease over time; the authors relate this to its lower ability to equip secondary school students--future employees--with skills for lifelong learning. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01