The governance of decentralised cooperation in collective training systems: a review and conceptualisation

Emmenegger, Patrick; Graf, Lukas; Trampusch, Christine

doi:10.1080/13636820.2018.1498906

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“…Given that Switzerland is considered to be the most liberal collective skill formation system (Emmenegger et al 2019), both the state's capacity and the influence of the unions proved stronger than expected. Under pressure to bring more young people into dual vocational training, the state initiated the introduction of short-tracks and a corresponding collective governance infrastructure, although both unions and employers initially opposed a lower level within VET.…”

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“…In order to understand different trajectories of liberalization, studying collective skill formation systems, which are located at the intersection of education and labour market policies, can generate insightful answers. Collective skill formation systems build on the cooperation among state actors, employers, and unions for the purpose of providing vocational education and training (VET) for a broad share of the population (Culpepper and Finegold 1999;Busemeyer and Trampusch 2012;Emmenegger et al 2019). However, pressures on firms to cost-minimize along with global competition and swift changes in skill demands in the post-industrial era may reduce the number of apprenticeship positions.…”

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Embedded flexibilization and polite employer domination: the case of short-track apprenticeships in Switzerland

Maio

Graf

Wilson

2020

Empirical Res Voc Ed Train

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National political economies and their skill formation systems face increasing liberalization and deindustrialization pressures, related to factors such as growing global competition, the rise of the service sector, and rapid technological developments (Streeck 2009; Mayer and Solga 2008). The literature on institutional change discusses different reactions to such increasing pressures. While some authors identify a process of policy conversion along the lines of liberalization (Albo 2005; Baccaro and Howell 2011), others highlight the variation in how systems liberalize (Thelen 2012, 2014). For example, Thelen (2012) finds that political economies differ in the extent to which they maintain strategic employer coordination to achieve joint economic gains, on the one hand,

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Embedded flexibilization and polite employer domination: the case of short-track apprenticeships in Switzerland

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Wilson

2020

Empirical Res Voc Ed Train

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“…Rather than a system offering benefits for both students and a wider labour market, which is common, for instance, in those VET systems characterised as collective skills regimes (e.g. Busemeyer and Trampusch 2011;Dobbins and Busemeyer 2015;Emmenegger, Graf, and Trampusch 2019;Thelen 2004), the underpinning principles of this device focus on the benefits for employers. The concerns raised by Australian industry about losing influence over VET in a marketised system are extraneous in the Swedish case, as both public and private education providers are dependent on employers in the tendering-like process of applications for approval and funding.…”

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Employers placing orders and students as commodities: Swedish post-secondary vocational education and training policy

Köpsén

2020

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

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Established in 2009, Swedish Higher Vocational Education (HVE) gives employers an opportunity to initiate state-funded but locally conceptualised and managed training programmes. This article investigates the system, the ideas used in policy to mandate this arrangement of vocational education and training (VET) and the institutional relations of power and control between stakeholders that it represents. Fourteen Swedish educational policy documents relating to postsecondary VET and the establishment of HVE were analysed. The findings show that policy has placed much of the power and control over HVE with employers and that both public and private education providers are dependent on employers. The system does not create any institutional relations between trade unions and HVE. Nor does it encourage employers to collaborate more comprehensively than locally regarding single programmes, to conceptualise them and their curricula. Hence, the qualifications and positions of HVE graduates in enterprises, unlike those of graduates from initial VET in upper secondary education, are not negotiated by the stakeholders in the conventional Swedish model, where national employers' organisations and trade unions are central actors. The findings also reveal that the HVE students, in policy documents, are construed as input material that, through training, are turned into products with exchange valueinto commodities.

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“…The two latter aspects, relating to the role of unions, can be expected in a statist type of system (where the role of social partners in VET is limited) to be less relevant at the local level. However, at the local level, it can be assumed that the characteristics and degree of firm coordination are essential for firm strategies (Emmenegger, Graf, and Trampusch 2019). Building on Busemeyer and Trampusch's model (see above), Remington argues that it is useful to study local partnerships in VET along two dimensions: 'breadth or scope of participation, and depth of commitment on the part of the organisational partners' (Remington 2018, 506).…”

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Decentralised cooperation between industries and local governments in a statist skill-formation system: an analysis of industrial schools in Sweden

Persson

Hermelin

2020

Journal of Vocational Education & Training

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The scholarly debate about cooperation between different stakeholders in Vocational Education and Training has primarily focussed on the national level, and much less on local and regional levels. This article aims to contribute to our understanding of the conditions and mechanisms of decentralised cooperation in VET systems, through a comparative case study of two partnerships between local government and industry at two industrial schools in Sweden. We want to understand how and why companies and municipalities engage in this kind of cooperation , in a national structural context which provides few incentives for doing so. Our analysis is guided by two research questions. Firstly, what have these collaborations meant in terms of the involvement of firms and commitment from local government? Secondly, what factors can explain the similarities and differences between the establishment and upholding of these two collaborative arrangements? Our study shows that the partnerships can be characterised by different dynamics in relation to the scope of participation and depth of commitment of the partners. We also show that two conditions are especially important for understanding variations between the cases: the structure of local industry, and the characteristics of the relationship between local government and the industrial companies.

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The governance of decentralised cooperation in collective training systems: a review and conceptualisation

Cited by 64 publications

References 57 publications

Embedded flexibilization and polite employer domination: the case of short-track apprenticeships in Switzerland

Embedded flexibilization and polite employer domination: the case of short-track apprenticeships in Switzerland

Employers placing orders and students as commodities: Swedish post-secondary vocational education and training policy

Decentralised cooperation between industries and local governments in a statist skill-formation system: an analysis of industrial schools in Sweden

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