"Over the past few decades, a large number of empirical studies have been conducted to examine how the increasing supply of educated workers affects the economic growth of the nation or the returns on educational investments reaped by the individual and the whole society
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This paper aims to contribute to this body of literature by using an extensive set of linked register data on students, educational organisations and their institutions as well as companies. These data offer a unique opportunity to study empirically how various quantitative and qualitative aspects of the resources used in the educational organisations (and in their institutions/establishments) affect the probability of a student entering into employment or further studies rather than into non-employment upon graduation from initial vocational education.
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Our study departs from the prevalent main strand of the literature in two important respects. Firstly, the educational outcome is here gauged on the basis of employability (or further education ability) rather than test scores. Measures that describe students' post-school performance are probably more relevant in the context of vocational education, which is primarily aimed at producing skilled labour (and pushing students into further studies).
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Our main findings are the following. Teaching expenditures do not seem to matter but teachers' skills do. The student's characteristics and performance in comprehensive school play an important role in directing his or her choices. Parental background has strong effects even after careful control for the other factors. Local business conditions affect the outcomes of boys but little of girls. The official quality evaluations implemented by the Finnish Ministry of Education seem to pay attention especially to those aspects of initial vocational education production that are important for providing the students with capabilities for further education but less so for their employability. Finally, the performance indicator ("tulosrahoitusmittari") currently used in Finland as one of the decision-making tools for distributing funds to initial vocational education organisations does not predict well the students' propensity of employment or further studies."
Trechos retirados de "It takes three to tango in employment: Matching vocational education organisations, students and companies in labour market" de Mika Maliranta, Satu Nurmi e Hanna Virtanen.
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