Youth Labour Market; Formal Employment System; Employer Engagement; Formal Education System; Informal Education System; Gainful Employment; Vocational Education and Training; Informal Employment System ; Social Institutions
Peralta RojasMiski, Bordon TapiaPaola, KemperJohanna Mirka, aldonado-MariscalKarina (2020),
Country Case Study on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Chile, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
Baral Prasad Durga (2020),
Developing a Typology of Informal Skills Learning Places in Nepal, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
BolliThomas, KemperJohanna Mirka, ParajuliMahesh N., RenoldUrsula, ThapaBinayak Krishna (2020),
Drivers and Barriers of Scaling-Up the Dual VETApprenticeship Programme in Nepal, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
ParajuliMahesh N., RenoldUrsula, BhandariUsha, LamsalHari (2020),
Financial Flow in TVET in Nepal: Transiting from the Old to the New Constitution, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
BolliThomas, KemperJohanna Mirka, ParajuliMahesh N., RenoldUrsula, ThapaBinayak Krishna (2020),
Projection of Net Benefits for Companies in the Dual VET-Apprenticeship Programme in Nepal, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
NouatinGuy, GandonouEsaïe, BankoleRubain, RenoldUrsula (2020),
Reforms of Technical Vocational Education and Training system in Benin: An exploration of social anthropological field, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
PaudelPrakash Kumar, AcharyaLaxman, ParajuliMahesh N. (2020),
Students’ Perspective on Master in Technical and Vocational Education and Training Program in Nepal, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
BankoléRubain, NouatinGuy, GandonouEsaïe (2020),
The Dual Apprenticeship in Benin: Strategic Actors and Roles, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
KudrzyckiBartlomiej, GüntherIsabel (2020),
The Working Lives of 1250 Urban Youth in Benin, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
Kudrzycki Bartlomiej, Günther Isabel, Lefoll Erwin (2020),
Youth Labor Index for Low Income Countries, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
Thapa Binayak, Singh Aishwarya (2019), TVET Approaches: A Diagnosis through the Lens of Human Capital, Right Based and Capability Approach, in
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Dual Vet-Apprenticeship Programme in Nepal: Formative Assessment of the First Cohort, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
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Country Case Study on Technical Vocational Education (TVET) in Costa Rica, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
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Country Case Study on Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Benin, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
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Positioning Informal Skills Learners in Nepal's TVET System, LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
RenoldUrsula, RagethLadina, CavesKatherine M., BürgiJutta (2019),
Theoretical and Methodological Framework for Measuring the Robustness of Social Institutions in Education and Training, KOF Working Paper / LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
CavesKatherine M., GhislettaAndrea, KemperJohanna Mirka, RenoldUrsula (2019),
Meeting in the middle: TVET programs’ education-employment linkage in developing contexts, KOF Working Paper / LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
BolliThomas, ParajuliMahesh N., RenoldUrsula (2019),
Has the relationship between formal education and the formal employment sector in Nepal changed between 1995 and 2014?, KOF Working Paper / LELAM Working Paper, Zurich.
CavesKathrine, RenoldUrsula (2019),
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RenoldUrsula, CavesKatherine M. (2018),
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RenoldUrsula, CavesKatherine M., BolliThomas (2018),
Constitutional Reform and its Impact on TVET Governance in Nepal, KOF-ETH Zurich, Zurich.
GüntherIsabel, KudrzyckiBartlomiej (2018),
Improving Development Policies with Impact Evaluations, Rural 21, DLG-Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany.
RenoldUrsula, CavesKatherine M. (2017),
Constitutional Reform and its Impact on TVET Governance in Nepal. A report in support of developing understanding and finding the way forward for federalizing the TVET sector in Nepal, KOF-ETH Zurich, Zurich.
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Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), which prepares students for labour market entry, “is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness” (Eichhorst et al. 2012). However, little evidence exists on how policy makers can increase the effectiveness of TVET by improving its social institutions in terms of the regulative, normative and cultural-cognitive pillars. This represents a crucial dimension of the TVET system as these social institutions govern the involved actors, their roles, and their relationships with each other. Hence, this project aims to analyse the conditions under which TVET improves gainful employment, job quality, and thus income of youth.To this end, we develop a framework that describes and measures the social institutions of TVET. We focus in particular on education-employment linkage, which is the institutionalized and observable communication between actors from the education and employment systems. In low-income countries, increasing linkage often requires a formalization strategy of validating existing informal TVET by the education system. Conversely, middle-income countries should increase linkage by aligning their education system with the needs of the labour market. In addition to assessing linkage, the project develops a tool to measure the youth labour market situation while accounting for special issues like the informal labour market’s relative prevalence and the measurement of gainful employment. We apply the theoretical and empirical frameworks we develop to four case study countries: Nepal, Benin, Costa Rica and Chile. The four countries differ substantially on characteristics like economic development and culture. We use this variation and exploit experimental and quasi-experimental variation created by past and upcoming TVET reforms and pilot projects to analyse the impact of linkage on the youth labour market situation. We cooperate closely with TVET policy makers, reform leaders and stakeholders by inviting them to participate in the CEMETS summer institute and the TVET Management Master in Nepal. The problem-based learning approach provides them the opportunity to critically reflect on their reform plans with the feedback of an international peer group. Following these reforms as they progress allows us to analyse success factors and barriers to successful reform implementation and continuation, thereby bridging the gap between intentions and actions.