Der Bildungsbericht Schweiz 2026 der Schweizerischen Koordinationsstelle für Bildungsforschung SKBF liegt vor. Der Bericht wurde am 23. März 2026 in Bern von Bundespräsident Guy Parmelin und Staatsrat Christophe Darbellay entgegengenommen.

EU impotence extends to decarbonisation

If you read one thing about Iran & geopolitics & economic fallout & climate, make it this @martinsandbu.ft.com column

A graph of data center vs office construction, showing data centers basically tied with offices

The US now spends basically as much on data center construction as on office construction

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Dual VET proves especially beneficial for men and individuals with low career motivation, indicating its effectiveness for those who struggle in a purely school-based system.

Full article here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lqd6%7E1Q...

The results show that dual VET graduates secure their first #employment more quickly and experience far fewer periods of #NEET. In contrast, school-based VET graduates are more likely to pursue higher education, demonstrating that each form of VET has an advantage.

The article looks at a key feature of vocational education and training ( #VET): firm-based training. To this end, I compare #dual ( #firm-based) VET with purely school-based VET, focusing on the #school-to-work transitions of Swiss VET graduates.

Classroom versus workbench: The impact of firm-based learning on labour market and educational outcomes This study examines the effects of firm-based (or dual) vocational education and training (VET) on labour market and educational outcomes. Using Swiss…

I am very happy that my article, «Classroom versus workbench: The impact of firm-based learning on labour market and educational outcomes » has been published in Economics of Education Review.

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This is a great figure. For all the doom & gloom about climate inaction, we have made a big dent over the past 25 years.

What started out as 3.5-4°C increase by 2100 is now down to 2-3°C. Of course, more work is urgently needed but this is progress! We don't let up now. h/t @hausfath.bsky.social

The Nature of Our Power: A Conversation with Political Scientist Erica Chenoweth "The best study on the subject in my opinion suggests that in the long term, institutions really can’t save us; that civil society and mass mobilization are a more potent check on a backsliding democr...

Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social for this both insightful and inspiring interview on democratic resistance. 🙏 I needed that.

This is a thread about remaking the tech sector.

Heterogeneity in STEM coursework within and across college majors: do college graduates’ earnings depend on major, STEM credits, or both? In contrast to studies that identify the expected earnings premium associated with any STEM degree or with specific college majors, we account for workers’ majors and the percent of total college c...

"STEM intensity is an important determinant of earnings for many STEM & non-STEM majors, and estimated earnings gaps between pairs of majors can change dramatically when STEM intensity is accounted for...emphasize the value of STEM coursework for non-STEM majors" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital,” by Brown(@clbrown.bsky.social), Kaur, Kingdon, and Schofield: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Swiss youth in vocational training seek jobs less prone to automation In Switzerland and around the world, younger generations are re-assessing their career choices in response to growing automation driven by AI.

How do young people, the future workforce, respond to advances in GenAI? A Swissinfo article discusses our study findings:
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Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark (Forthcoming Article) - In Europe, the children of migrants often have worse economic outcomes than those with local-born parents. This paper shows that children born in Denmark with immigrant parents...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Background Matters, but Not Whether Parents Are Immigrants: Outcomes of Children Born in Denmark" by Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen and Alan Manning. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Moreover, the elasticity depends strongly on the regional and institutional setting. In rural areas, for example, education spending tends to be completely inelastic, raising both efficiency and equity issues.

Maria Zumbuehl and I examine this response elasticity using #Swiss cantonal data. We find that expenditure responds rather loosely to changes in student numbers. Growing class sizes lead to lower per-pupil expenditure, while shrinking class sizes lead to higher per-pupil expenditure.

The response of public education spending to changes in student cohort sizes In this paper, we study the elasticity of educational spending with respect to changing student numbers, in a system where educational spending is autonomously determined at a regional level. While...

New publication in Education Economics on #school #finance.

School #cohort sizes vary from year to year, for example due to the ageing of society or due to immigration. But how do school #expenditures respond to these fluctuations?

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👉 The results also show that dual VET is particularly helpful for men and for those with low career motivation.

👉 The study's findings show that dual VET graduates are more likely to be employed after graduation, have higher incomes, and have fewer NEET periods, while school-based VET graduates are more likely to progress to higher education, but have significantly more NEET periods.

The study analyzes the trajectories of Swiss VET graduates and investigates whether firm-based (dual) VET graduates and school-based VET graduates have different labor market outcomes.

Classroom versus workbench: Labour market effects of firm-ba This study assesses the labour market effects of firm-based (or dual) vocational education and training (VET), i.e. when training takes place in a firm rather than in a school. Using Swiss administrat

New working-paper 📈📉:

What is the role of firm-based training in the #school-to-work transition of #VET graduates?

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What wages do people expect for vocational and academic education backgrounds in Switzerland? - Swis... Correctly anticipating the earnings for different education profiles is pivotal in making informed education decisions. In this paper, leveraging unique survey data, we study the wage expectations for...

Maria Alejandra Cattaneo uses Swiss survey data to investigate what factors drive wage expectations for persons with an academic background and vocational education. sjes.springeropen.com/articles/10....

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