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Title: Educational Reform and Technical Education?
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Bishop, John H. |
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Educational Reform and Technical Education? Working Paper 93-04, Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University,1993 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, Cornell University Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); Education; Job Training; Labor Market Outcomes; Military Training; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT; Training; Vocational Education; Vocational Training Data is from all eight waves of the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) from 1979-1986. This paper examines high school educational reform and the focus of that reform on worker productivity. School subjects such as business education, vocational education, economics, and computers that appear to be most directly related with productivity receive little attention from reformers and new graduation requirements introduced by reformers have contributed to an 8% decline in vocational course participation between 1982 and 1987. Skills taught in typical vocational programs are analyzed. Results suggest that young men who have the skills and knowledge that trade and technical programs try to impart are indeed more productive in blue collar and technical jobs, are less likely to be unemployed, and obtain higher wage rates and earnings. |
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Bishop, John H. "Educational Reform and Technical Education?" Working Paper 93-04, Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University,1993. |