Curriculum updates

This research analyzes how updating vocational education curricula influences workers’ skills and wages as well as firms’ adoption of new technologies.

Curriculum updates in vocational education and changes in graduates’ skills and wages.Journal of Education and Work, 37(2024)5-6: 458-482 (first published online 29.01.2025). By Andreas F. Bühler, Patrick Lehnert and Uschi Backes-Gellner. Working Paper version

Does updating education curricula accelerate technology adoption in the workplace? Evidence from dual vocational education and training curricula in Switzerland.The Journal of Technology Transfer, 49(2024): 191-235. By Tobias Schultheiss and Uschi Backes-Gellner. Working Paper version

IT Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations.  Economics of Education Review, 92(2023). By Christian Eggenberger and Uschi Backes-Gellner. Working Paper version

Noncognitive Skills in Training Curricula and Nonlinear Wage Returns.International Journal of Manpower, 44(2023)4: 772-788. By Fabienne Kiener, Ann-Sophie Gnehm and Uschi Backes-Gellner. Working Paper version

The Role of Occupational Skill Sets in the Digital Transformation: How IT Progress Shapes Returns to Specialization and Social Skills.Journal of Business Economics, 94(2023): 75-111. By Fabienne Kiener, Christian Eggenberger and Uschi Backes-Gellner. Working Paper version

IT skills in vocational training curricula and labour market outcomes.Journal of Education and Work, 35(2022)6-7: 614-640. By Fabienne Kiener, Ann-Sophie Gnehm, Simon Clematide and Uschi Backes-Gellner. Working Paper version

Modernization of Vocational Training Curricula and Technology Adoption in Firms: A Descriptive Analysis with German Data.Swiss Leading House "Economics of Education" Working Paper No. 150, 2018. By Christian Eggenberger, Simon Janssen and Uschi Backes-Gellner.