Background: Citizens in modern democratic societies are confronted with complex demands, challenges, and economic problems, and they typically act as consumers, savers, voters, and employees. It is highly desirable for citizens to be able to competently manage these various demands. This ability we call economic-civic competence. Given the lack of empirical findings and adequate instruments on this issue, we analyze the economic-civic competence of commercial apprentices in Germany and Switzerland. In Swiss commercial apprenticeships, the fostering of this competence is explicitly anchored in the curricula of vocational schools. In Germany, the curricula coverage is not as broad as in Switzerland, which leads to an assumption of country dif...
Addressing the European Union monitoring of civic competence, this article presents a composite indi...
In dual vocational education and training (VET) systems, the state and employers collaborate in orde...
The impact of general and specific training on income and mobility is an important issue for the dis...
Abstract Background Citizens in modern democratic societies are confronted with complex demands, cha...
Background:Citizens in modern democratic societies are confronted with complex demands, challenges, ...
BackgroundThe Federal Vocational Baccalaureate constitutes the major link between the academic and v...
Competences in civic education in the context of the debate on civic education standardsPoor perform...
This article compares the 'competence' of the principal economic policymakers in 27 European Union (...
The varieties of capitalism literature has put skill systems at the center of comparative politics. ...
In the course of the European Bologna process, the notion of employability becomes increasingly impo...
United States scholars in economics education generally view economic literacy as the field’s ...
Wuttke, E., Seifried, J., Schumann, S. (Eds.). (2016). Economic competence and financial literacy of...
This article develops a composite indicator to monitor the levels of civic competence of young peopl...
For several years, there is an increasing discussion in Germany that youths are less and less ready ...
Measuring Civic Competence in Europe is part of a process to establish and monitor the learning outc...
Addressing the European Union monitoring of civic competence, this article presents a composite indi...
In dual vocational education and training (VET) systems, the state and employers collaborate in orde...
The impact of general and specific training on income and mobility is an important issue for the dis...
Abstract Background Citizens in modern democratic societies are confronted with complex demands, cha...
Background:Citizens in modern democratic societies are confronted with complex demands, challenges, ...
BackgroundThe Federal Vocational Baccalaureate constitutes the major link between the academic and v...
Competences in civic education in the context of the debate on civic education standardsPoor perform...
This article compares the 'competence' of the principal economic policymakers in 27 European Union (...
The varieties of capitalism literature has put skill systems at the center of comparative politics. ...
In the course of the European Bologna process, the notion of employability becomes increasingly impo...
United States scholars in economics education generally view economic literacy as the field’s ...
Wuttke, E., Seifried, J., Schumann, S. (Eds.). (2016). Economic competence and financial literacy of...
This article develops a composite indicator to monitor the levels of civic competence of young peopl...
For several years, there is an increasing discussion in Germany that youths are less and less ready ...
Measuring Civic Competence in Europe is part of a process to establish and monitor the learning outc...
Addressing the European Union monitoring of civic competence, this article presents a composite indi...
In dual vocational education and training (VET) systems, the state and employers collaborate in orde...
The impact of general and specific training on income and mobility is an important issue for the dis...