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The Swiss vocational education and training system: What can Spain learn from Switzerland?
Switzerland is famous for its vocational education and training (VET) system. This article describes Switzerland's success in integrating adolescents into the labour market, with emphasis on two aspects. First, dual-track VET, which combines learning at school and in host companies, is an attractive choice for adolescents. It prepares them for the labour market and for progression routes to higher education. Second, the firm's decision to train could be an example of the prisoner's dilemma, but Switzerland has managed to sidestep that issue and minimize concerns about poaching. Finally, we discuss what Spain could learn from the Swiss VET system.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: KOF Working Papers ; No. 383
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Cooperative Games
Analysis of Education
- Subject
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Swiss vocational education and training system
apprenticeship
standard of excellence
youth labour market
prisoner's dilemma
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Egg, Maria Esther
Renold, Ursula
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
- (where)
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Zurich
- (when)
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2015
- DOI
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doi:10.3929/ethz-a-010479871
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Egg, Maria Esther
- Renold, Ursula
- ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Time of origin
- 2015
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