Does TVET make a significant impact on employment

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Does TVET make a significant impact on employment?

• A review of evidence

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TVET what does it stand for?

• Part of lifelong learning
• Public good
• Following market principles
• Building human capital
• HRD towards employability
• Building social capital
• social inclusion / social coherence
• One pathway out of the poverty trap

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Employment TVET Social ProtectionAll
interrelated
Labour market strategies and instruments
HRDstrategiesandinstru-ments
Private sectorpromotionstrategies
Labour marketmatching mechanisms
Productive sustainable decentemployment
Employabilityand social inclusion
TVET
Social protection
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Theses 1

• Demand-oriented TVET is one crucial factor for
  global economic competitiveness.
• Competitiveness is a pre-condition of economic
  growth.
• Economic growth does not necessarily create more
  and better employment.

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The evidence 1

• China social costs of economic growth
• Investment in TVET for structural change
• Disparities of economic growth
• Increasing internal labour migration
• Growing illegality of employment and growing
  unemployment
• Malaysia Booming modern sector and the rest?
• High-tech industry drives growth at the expense
  of labour intensive production
• TVET sustains structural economic change but
  access?
• Regional and sectoral disparities in HRD and in
  employment

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Theses 2

• Sustainable economic growth needs social
  coherence
• Employment-intensive growth is based on the
  development of human and social capital
• Free market-driven TVET models are falling short
  on the social capital side
• Social market economy-driven models can keep the
  balance

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The evidence 2

• USA
• HRD widely left to market forces Responsibility
  of individuals
• Little relevance of TVET for social coherence
• High social costs of economic growth
• Slovenia
• Focus on LLL, employability and active labour
  market policy
• HRD part of coherent employment policy for
  economic growth
• Combining strategies for social and human capital
  works
• Germany
• Social dialogue sustains market-relevant quality
  of TVET
• Government secures broad access to TVET
• Alliance for Work (Bündnis für Arbeit) gt
  public-private partnership in economically
  difficult times

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Thesis 3

• There is no one-size-fits-all TVET strategy to
  maximise impact on employment and to foster
  economic growth
• but
• There are key characteristics of TVET systems
  striving for impact on employment and economic
  growth

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TVET systems for employment and growth
structural considerations

• Conceiving TVET as part of comprehensive
  employment policies / strategies
• Pursuing a lifelong learning approach
• Close links between TVET and labour market
  services
• Partnership of government, private sector and
  civil society at all levels of decision-making

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TVET systems for employment and growth
structural considerations II

• Balance between public good and service at
  free-market conditions, meaning
• TVET is rooted in comprehensive education
  systems, but goes beyond
• Obeying the principle of subsidiarity
• Strict quality management
• Integrated interventions of TVET labour market
  and private sector promotions

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