International Journal of Manpower: Volume 27 Issue 4

Gender and racial differences in vocational education: an international perspective

Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Teresa Boyer

Seeks to examine the extent to which education systems around the world embrace vocational schooling and the degree to which exposure to vocational schooling differs by gender and…

Still a wedge in the door: women training for the construction trades in the USA

Günseli Berik, Cihan Bilginsoy

This paper aims to evaluate the variations in the entry and exit of women apprentices in the USA, overall and by race/ethnicity, over the 1995‐2003 period. Also aims to examine…

Ethnicity, gender and vocational education in Denmark

Bjørg Colding

The purpose of this article is to investigate whether family background and the choice of vocational field explain the observed gap in dropout rates from vocational upper…

Benefits of general vs vocational/technical education in Singapore using quantile regressions

Chris Sakellariou

This study sets out to investigate the pattern of benefits from education along the earnings distribution and compares this pattern between general and vocational/technical…

Vocational training for the unemployed: its impact on uncommonly served groups

Leela Hebbar

This paper aims to examine the impact of vocational training on unemployed workers not typically studied: women enrolled in engineering or computer programming training and high…

Legal remedies for girls' under‐representation in nontraditional career and technical education

Ellen Eardley, Jessica Manvell

The purpose of this article is to document the extent of girls' under‐representation in nontraditional high school career and technical education courses, examine the role of sex…