A nationally representative sample of youth with disabilities who recently exited high school was studied to determine the participation of the youth in postsecondary educational programs. The results show that youth with disabilities participate in postsecondary programs at only one-quarter the rat…
"Vocations" are distinguished by specialized clusters of skills and to examine vocational education and training in a development context is to examine formation of progressively more refined mixes of skills. Of critical importance are diverse agencies and institutions in the formation of competenci…
This paper compares graduates of the formal vocational and technical education (VTE) system in Côte d'Ivoire with those of informal apprenticeships, in terms of access to jobs, earnings, and the internal rate of return to investment in education. The structure of the labor market is explicitly consi…
This paper examines the contribution of the Conservative government’s ‘free labour market’ policies to recent productivity and economic performance, drawing on a detailed study of restructuring in the British construction industry. These policies are shown to have given a beneficial short-term boost…
Source:British Journal of Industrial Relations
(1990)
Public policy towards youth employment and training in Britain during the past decade has been dominated by two themes: the quest to reduce youth relative pay, as part of a wider deregulation of the labour market, in order to increase access to jobs and training: and the neglect of apprenticeship in…
Recent research points to an association between participation in certain kinds of secondary vocational programs and the development of improved attitudes (e.g. toward self, school, work, and others). There is considerable disagreement, however, over the meaning of these findings. Supporters of voca…
The number of women general dental practitioners has increased in the last few years as the number of women graduating from UK dental schools has also increased. The increase in women practitioners from 1975 to 1985 is of the order of 10 per cent, although only 23 per cent of the total owned their o…
