Fafo project: Adult learning, vocational skills and labour market outcomes

An important purpose of this project is to gain more knowledge about factors that motivate young adults to obtain a trade certificate. In addition, we investigate the importance of a vocational qualification for labour market participation and mobility.

Main goals

To map motivational factors, recruitment processes and consequences of obtaining vocational qualifications for young adults
To investigate the importance of formal vocational qualifications in working life
To analyze the relationship between competence, skills, and opportunities for different groups in the labour market

Researchers

Project manager:
Anna Hagen Tønder

Fafo's Publications

Fafo-notat 2016:11

Voksne som tar fagbrev

Mange fullfører videregående opplæring i voksen alder i Norge. Det finnes gode muligheter for å ta fagbrev som voksen, blant annet gjennom praksiskandidatordningen som gir voksne med lang og variert…

Other types of publications and dissemination

Job quality through upskilling?

2020

Tove Mogstad Aspøy (2020) Job quality through upskilling? The case of the cleaning industry in the collective system of Norway, Journal of Education and Work, 33:3, 229-241, DOI: 10.1080/13639080.2020.1754363

Journal of Education and Work

Economic returns to adult vocational qualifications

2020

Bratsberg, B., Nyen, T & Raaum, O. (2020) Economic returns to adult vocational qualifications, Journal of Education and Work 33(2)

Journal of Education and Work

Adult Vocational Qualifications Reduce the Social Gradient in Education

2019

Bratsberg, B., Nyen, T. & Raaum, O. (2019). Adult Vocational Qualifications Reduce the Social Gradient in Education. Social Inclusion 7(3), 95–109.

Social Inclusion

Low education, high job quality? Job autonomy and learning among workers without higher education in Scandinavia, the United Kingdom and Ireland

2019

Tove Mogstad Aspøy (2019) Low education, high job quality? Job autonomy and learning among workers without higher education in Scandinavia, the United Kingdom and Ireland, European Societies, DOI: 10.1080/14616696.2019.1660392

European Societies

When Work Comes First: Young Adults in Vocational Education and Training in Norway

2017

Tønder, A. H. & Aspøy, T. M. (2017). When Work Comes First: Young Adults in Vocational Education and Training in Norway. International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 4(3), 270-288.

International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training

Fagbrev i voksen alder

2017

Bratsberg, B., Nyen, T. & Raaum, O. (2017). Fagbrev i voksen alder. Søkelys på arbeidslivet, 01-02(34).

Project period

Start:

January 2014
End:

December 2022

Commissioned by

The Research Council of Norway, FINNUT – Programme for Research and Innovation in the Eduational Sector

Partners

Frischsenteret

Adult learning, vocational skills and labour market outcomes

Researchers

Tove Mogstad Aspøy

Torgeir Nyen

Anna Hagen Tønder

Jon Rogstad