ERIC Number: EJ1033665
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
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Employer Engagement in British Secondary Education: Wage Earning Outcomes Experienced by Young Adults
Mann, Anthony; Percy, Christian
Journal of Education and Work, v27 n5 p496-523 2014
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% but these evaluations do not directly comment on the UK approach, as they focus on highly specialised forms of education with closely integrated employer involvement. A new 2011 survey associates wage returns and school-mediated employer contacts for 169 full-time 19-24-year-old workers on annual salaries within the UK environment--and suggests a link of 4.5% between each additional school-mediated employer contact, such that four employer contacts would produce results in line with the US studies. Contrasting the US and UK studies suggests that any causal link from school-mediated employer contact to wage outcomes is likely to be driven more by increased social capital as witnessed in improved access to non-redundant, trustworthy information and social network development than by the development of either technical or "employability" skills.
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Employer Attitudes, Young Adults, School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Social Capital, Education Work Relationship, Transitional Programs, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Field Experience Programs, Graduate Surveys, Employee Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Career Development, Self Efficacy, Outcomes of Education, Educational Benefits, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom; United States
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