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Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in)equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education

In: A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality

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  • Margarita Chudnovskaya
  • Erik Nylander
  • Rebecca Ye

Abstract

Sweden’s labor market is notable for significant gender segregation combined with a high labor force participation among men and women. This chapter explores gender segregation in relation to Higher Vocational Education (HVE), a form of Swedish post-secondary vocational education. HVE is a rapidly expanding, publicly-funded form of adult vocational education and training. One of its mandates is to address gender segregation in the labor market by (re-)training workers for industries where their gender is under-represented. This chapter examines the gender inequality in field of study in this vocational educational form using Swedish register data for all HVE participants (N=278,107) in years 2005-2019. We show that men and women make starkly different choices with regard to field of study. We examine the factors associated with gender typical and a-typical choices such as previous education, employment, and socio-demographic variables.

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  • Margarita Chudnovskaya & Erik Nylander & Rebecca Ye, 2023. "Skills and adult educational choice: Gender (in)equality in a new form of Swedish vocational education," Chapters, in: Michael Tåhlin (ed.), A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality, chapter 6, pages 85-101, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20326_6
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