Employer engagement in British secondary education: wage earning outcomes experienced by young adults
Since 2004, the devolved education systems of England, Scotland and Wales have introduced initiatives to increase contact between employers and young people, particularly aged 14-19, as a supplementary, co-curricular activity within mainstream education. The initiatives are motivated partly to increase wage-earning potential but studies to date have not explicitly tested this hypothesis. Robust evaluations from the USA suggest a potential wage uplift of 6.5-25 per cent but these evaluations do not directly comment on the UK approach, as they focus on highly specialised forms of education with ... Show more
Authors: Mann, Anthony; Percy, Chris
Published: Abingdon, England, Taylor and Francis, 2014
Resource type: Article
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