Vocational Education Research Seminars
The Centre for Vocational Education Research organises seminars and conferences.
This series is part of the CEP's Education and skills programme and the Centre for Vocational Education Research.
External visitors to Vocational Education Research Seminars held on campus are required to register for these events by emailing cver@lse.ac.uk
Participants are expected to adhere to the CEP Events Code of Conduct.
Wednesday 12 May 2021 14:00 - 15:00
Labor market returns to adult education
Hanna Virtanen (ETLA Economic Research)
ONLINE
Wednesday 28 April 2021 14:00 - 15:00
Worker Skills and Organizational Spillovers: Evidence from Linked Training and Communications Data
Miguel Espinosa (Pompeu Fabra University)
ONLINE
Wednesday 24 March 2021 14:00 - 15:00
The Effect of College Capital Projects on Students' Outcomes
Claudia Hupkau (CUNEF University; CVER and CEP, LSE)
ONLINE
Wednesday 24 February 2021 14:00 - 15:00
Assessing the Implementation and Impact of CTE in NYC – Early Impacts on Short-term Academic Outcomes
Rebecca Unterman (MRDC)
ONLINE
Wednesday 10 February 2021 14:00 - 15:00
The Returns to College(s): Estimating Value-Added and Match Effects in Higher Education
Jack Mountjoy (University of Chicago)
ONLINE
Wednesday 16 December 2020 12:00 - 13:00
Management Practices in Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges
Luis Schmidt (CVER and CEP, LSE), joint with Sandra McNally and Anna Valero
ONLINE
Wednesday 02 December 2020 14:00 - 15:00
Where versus What: College Value-Added and Returns to Field of Study in Further Education
Jeni Ruiz Valenzuela (CEP, LSE), joint with Esteban Aucejo and Claudia Hupkau
ONLINE
Wednesday 04 November 2020 14:00 - 15:00
Labour Market Returns to Vocational Education: The Role of Counterfactual Choices
Sönke Hendrik Matthewes (WZB Berlin Social Science Center), joint with Guglielmo Ventura
ONLINE
Wednesday 14 October 2020 14:00 - 15:00
Closing the Gap Between Vocational and General Education? Evidence from University Technical Colleges in England
Guglielmo Ventura (CVER and CEP, LSE), joint with Steve Machin, Sandra McNally and Camille Terrier
ONLINE
Wednesday 20 May 2020 14:00 - 15:30
The Effects of Career and Technical Education: Evidence from the Connecticut Technical High School System
Shaun Dougherty (University of Connecticut)
ONLINE
Wednesday 22 April 2020 14:00 - 15:30
POSTPONED
Miguel Espinosa (Pompeu Fabra University)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 11 March 2020 15:30 - 17:00
SEMINAR CANCELLED
Thijs Bol (University of Amsterdam)
Venue to be Confirmed
Wednesday 12 February 2020 14:00 - 15:30
Can Training Grants Improve Firm Performance? Regression-Discontinuity Evidence
Pedro Martins (Queen Mary University of London)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 15 January 2020 14:00 - 15:30
Success in apprenticeship - the role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Stefan Wolter (University of Bern)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 11 December 2019 14:00 - 15:30
Wages, Experience and Training of Women over the Lifecycle
Monica Costa Dias (Institute for Fiscal Studies)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 13 November 2019 14:00 - 15:30
The Effects of Youth Labor Market Reforms: Evidence from Italian Apprenticeships
Lorenzo Cappellari (Università Cattolica, Milan)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 23 October 2019 12:30 - 14:00
Special Education Seminar: The Labor Market Returns to Advanced Degrees
Joseph Altonji (Yale University)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 16 October 2019 15:30 - 17:00
The Impact of Dual Apprenticeship Programs on Early Labour Market Outcomes: A Dynamic Approach
Brecht Neyt (Ghent University)
Sheffield University, Room G04, 9 Mappin Street Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT
Wednesday 26 June 2019 14:00 - 15:30
External effects of apprenticeships
Thomas Cornelissen (University of York)
SAL 3.05, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 20 March 2019 15:30 - 17:00
Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany
Gerard Van den Berg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Sheffield University, Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT
Wednesday 27 February 2019 14:30 - 16:00
Supply Shocks in the Market for Apprenticeships: Evidence from a German High School Reform
Gerard Pfann (IZA Institute of Labor Economics and Maastricht University)
SAL 2.04, 2nd Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 30 January 2019 14:00 - 15:30
The Impact of Dual Vocational Education on the Labor Market Insertion of Youth: Evidence from Madrid
Antonio Cabrales (University College London)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 12 December 2018 14:00 - 15:30
Estimating the Dynamic Effects of a Job Training Program with Multiple Alternatives
Kai Liu (University of Cambridge)
SAL LG.04, Lower Ground Floor, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 28 November 2018 14:00 - 15:30
Employment protection and worker training: Evidence from Italy
Massimiliano Bratti (University of Milan)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 24 October 2018 15:30 - 17:00
The Shelf Life of Incumbent Workers during Accelerating Technological Change: Evidence from a Training Regulation Reform
Jens Mohrenweiser (Bournemouth University)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 26 September 2018 14:00 - 15:30
Protectionism and Deskilling: Evidence From The Brexit Vote
Stephen Machin (CEP, LSE)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 30 May 2018 14:00 - 15:30
The Effect of Attending a Career and Technical High School on Human Capital Accumulation
Shaun Dougherty (University of Connecticut)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 25 April 2018 14:00 - 15:30
Additional Career Assistance and Educational Outcomes for Students in Lower Track Secondary Schools
Bernd Fitzenberger (Humboldt University of Berlin)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 21 March 2018 15:30 - 17:00
Alternative Pathways to Higher Education
Craig Holmes (University of Oxford)
Sheffield University, Room G14, 9 Mappin Street Building, Sheffield S1 4DT
Wednesday 24 January 2018 14:00 - 15:30
Gender, Willingness to Compete and Career Choices along the Whole Ability Distribution
Stefan Wolter (University of Bern)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 10 January 2018 14:00 - 15:30
Tackling Youth Unemployment: Evidence from a Labor Market Experiment in Uganda
Oriana Bandiera (LSE)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 13 December 2017 14:00 - 15:30
Does Job Information Reduce Occupational Gender Segregation? Evidence from a Nationwide Reform in Germany
Gender segregation in educational and occupational choice is a pervasive feature of labor markets in industrialized countries and contributes to persisting gender wage gaps. However, the literature has so far failed to analyze the role of information and uncertainty in creating gender segregation in the labor market. In this paper, we analyze the effect of a nationwide reform in Germany that provided job information to young people and investigate whether this information was able to reduce gender segregation in their combined educational and occupational choice for apprenticeship programs. More precisely, we use a difference-in-difference design to analyze the effect of establishing job information centers (JIC) in German counties. Using self-collected data on the exact opening dates of the 181 German JICs merged with data from the Sample of Integrated Labor Market Biographies (SIAB), we calculate Gini segregation indices for all 322 German county-level labor markets for the years 1975 till 2010. We run regressions of these Gini segregation indices on treatment variables. Standard fixed effects regression indicates a significant decline in the Gini indices due to JIC openings. We then confirm that the common trend assumption holds in a flexible model containing treatment leads and lags. This model provides evidence that the introduction of JICs lowered the Gini segregation indices significantly by about .03 Gini-points or 5 percent in the long-run. We perform further analyses to assess whether the effect of JICs operates mainly through a change in the relative size of occupations or rather through a change in the share of women within occupations.
Jürg Schweri (Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education & Training SFIVET)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 22 November 2017 14:00 - 15:30
Estimating the value-added of English Further Education Providers
Jeni Ruiz Valenzuela (CEP, LSE)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 25 October 2017 15:30 - 17:00
General education, vocational education and skill mismatches: short-run versus long-run effects
Dieter Verhaest (KU Leuven)
Sheffield University, Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT
Wednesday 28 June 2017 14:00 - 15:30
Apprenticeship education, training firms, and future labor market outcomes
Andrea Weber (Vienna University of Economics & Business), joint with Jasper Haller
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 24 May 2017 14:00 - 15:30
The longer the better? The impact of the 2012 apprenticeship reform in England on achievement and other outcomes
Stefan Speckesser (Institute for Employment Studies and CVER), joint with Vahé Nafilyan (King’s College and CVER)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 26 April 2017 15:30 - 17:00
The effect of choice options in training curricula on the demand for and supply of apprentices
Andries de Grip (Maastricht)
Sheffield University, Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT
Wednesday 29 March 2017 15:30 - 17:00
Returns to Education for High-School Dropouts: Lifecycle Heterogeneity and the Importance of Experience
Matt Dickson (University of Bath)
Sheffield University, Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT
Friday 24 February 2017 11:30 - 13:00
Heterogeneous Beliefs and School Choice Mechanisms
Christopher Neilson (Princeton University)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 25 January 2017 14:00 - 15:30
Labor market responses to a negative labor supply shock - Quasi-experimental evidence for Germany
Katja Goerlitz (Free University of Berlin)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 30 November 2016 14:00 - 15:30
Connecting the Young: In-school Work and Post-Graduation Outcomes in Booms and Great Recessions
Lena Hensvik (Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market & Education Policy (IFAU))
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 26 October 2016 14:00 - 15:30
Entry Through the Narrow Door: The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams
Jeni Ruiz Valenzuela (CEP, LSE), joint with Steve Machin and Sandra McNally
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Friday 27 May 2016 11:30 - 13:00
Recovering Ex Ante Returns and Preferences for Occupations using Subjective Expectations Data
Joe Hotz (Duke University)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 27 April 2016 15:30 - 17:00
Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impact
Seamus McGuinness (Economic & Social Research Institute)
Sheffield University, Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT
Wednesday 06 April 2016 14:00 - 15:30
Vocational Schooling versus Apprenticeship Training. Evidence from Vacancy Data
Matthias Parey (University of Surrey)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 24 February 2016 15:30 - 17:00
Course Choice and Achievement Effects of a Vocational Education and Training Voucher Scheme
Duncan McVicar (Queen's University Belfast)
Sheffield University, Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT
Thursday 28 January 2016 14:00 - 15:30
CVER / OECD Report Launch - Building Skills for All: Review of England
In England there are around nine million people with low literacy or numeracy skills or both. These nine million people might, for example, struggle to estimate how much petrol is left in the petrol tank from a sight of the gauge, or not be able to fully understand instructions on a bottle of aspirin. While basic skills of older people in England compare reasonably well with skills of their counterparts in other countries, younger people are lagging badly behind. This report was commissioned to offer an independent assessment of what could be behind these issues and to recommend some potential policy solutions. Speakers included: Frank Bowley (Deputy Director, Skills Policy Analysis, BIS), Sandra McNally (Director, CVER) and report authors
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 27 January 2016 14:00 - 15:30
The Benefits of Alternatives to Conventional College: Labor-Market Returns to Proprietary Schooling
Chris Jepsen (University College Dublin)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Friday 04 December 2015 11:30 - 13:00
Discrimination as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Evidence from French Grocery Stores
Amanda Pallais (Harvard University), joint with Joint CEP Labour/CVER seminar
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 25 November 2015 15:30 - 17:00
Unfortunately the speaker had to cancel - the next seminar will be at LSE on 4 December
Sheffield University, Lecture Theatre 2, Sir Henry Stephenson Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT
Wednesday 28 October 2015 14:00 - 15:30
The labour market effects of academic and vocational education over the life cycle. Evidence from two British cohorts
Giorgio Brunello (University of Venice)
SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH
Wednesday 23 September 2015 14:00 - 15:30
Current policy issues and how research can help
Frank Bowley (Department for Business, Innovation & Skills)
SAL LG.04, Lower Ground Floor, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH