Structure of vocational training programmes.

Vocational Training

In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases the unemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme evaluations. We propose a “control function” estimator accounting for variable treatment effects and ide...

The accreditation of vocational training programmes--results of a pilot survey.

THE College is concerned to improve on its methods of measuring the quality of training programmes for general practice. In a recent pilot study*¦ postal question¬ naires were used to collect data from trainees and teaching practices in three selected areas, Oxford (Region), North of England (Tyneside and Teesside), and Scotland (West of Scotland, Dundee, and Edinburgh). The responses are shown...

The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany

The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed proportiona...

Vocational education and training

Vocational Training For Defense

A L M O S T I M M E D I A T E L Y fo l lowing the i n i t i a l an nouncement t h a t the country was going to embark on a defense program came simultaneous demands for workers f rom a l l parts of the country and f r om a great var ie ty of industries. A lmost overnight , some communities which were experiencing widespread unemployment found their supplies of certain types of workers exhausted...