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Vincent, Andrea; Rajasekhar, Durgam – Education & Training, 2023
Purpose: Indian government initiated several skill development policies and different types of vocational education and training (VET). Yet the participation in skill education is low because of poor labour market outcomes. This paper aims to calculate returns to skill education to understand the type of training that will have better labour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Income
Colleges Ontario, 2019
This report shares data in the following categories as they relate to graduates in Ontario's economy: (1) Rising Ontario employer requirements for skills; (2) Matching skills to employer needs: pathways, entrepreneurship, and innovation; (3) Ontario's college graduate advantage compared to the U.S.; (4) International competitiveness: the quality…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Employment, Labor Market
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Agrawal, Tushar; Agrawal, Ankush – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
Skill development has been a major policy agenda in several countries and there is a lot of emphasis on the promotion of vocational education and training (VET) programmes. This paper investigates the labour market outcomes of the vocationally trained population in India using the data from a nationally representative survey on employment and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Market, Job Skills
OECD Publishing, 2018
"Education at a Glance: OECD Indicators" is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems in the 35 OECD and a number of partner countries. With more than 100 charts and tables, Education at a Glance 2018 imparts key…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Outcomes of Education
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Mohapatra, Sandeep; Luckert, Martin K. – International Journal of Educational Development, 2012
This paper estimates the distribution of educational returns by gender for India. While previous studies focus on mean returns, the variance of educational returns has important implications for policy-making and micro-level decision making with respect to education. If the variance of educational returns is large, it can leave large sections of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Gender Differences, Outcomes of Education
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Agrawal, Tushar – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2012
This paper provides an overview of vocational education and training (VET) system in India, and discusses various challenges and difficulties in the Indian VET system. The paper also examines labour market outcomes of vocational graduates and compares these with those of general secondary graduates using a large-scale nationally representative…
Descriptors: Industrial Training, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Market