Participation in Continuing Vocational Training in Germany between 1989 and 2008

Continuing vocational training and innovation in Europe

Teacher training for vocational schools in Germany

Skill Needs and Continuing Vocational Training in Sweden

The main purpose of this paper is to explore whether and how the amount of firmsponsored Continuing Vocational Training (CVT) provided in Sweden from 1999 onwards was influenced by institutional conditions. The Swedish labour market is characterised by a relatively large amount of publicly subsidised CVT. How this affects the incidence of firm-sponsored CVT ultimately depends on whether publicl...

The Participation of Female Immigrants in Vocational Training

This paper studies the transition of female immigrants from the former Soviet Union to the Israeli labor market and their participation in government-sponsored training programs. To study the determinants of the duration to training we estimate a Cox proportional hazard model. We Þnd that higher education leads to a signiÞcantly shorter duration to training, whereas immigrants who were older at...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...