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Curriculum updates in vocational education and changes in graduates’ skills and wages

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2025
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Buehler, A. F., Lehnert, P., & Backes-Gellner, U. (2025). Curriculum updates in vocational education and changes in graduates’ skills and wages. Journal of Education and Work, 37(5–6), 458–482. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2025.2456844

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This paper examines the relation between the nature of updates in training curricula and graduates’ skills and wages. Using vocational education and training (VET) curriculum texts as data, we apply natural language processing methods to identify the nature of changes in curriculum updates based on before-after comparisons of the skills the curricula contain. We introduce and measure two dimensions of curriculum updates: the ‘novelty rate’ (degree of new skills entering an updated curriculum) and the ‘removal rate’ (degree of old skil

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37

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5-6

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458

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482

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English

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2025-01-29

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2025-02-03

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1363-9080

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Buehler, A. F., Lehnert, P., & Backes-Gellner, U. (2025). Curriculum updates in vocational education and changes in graduates’ skills and wages. Journal of Education and Work, 37(5–6), 458–482. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639080.2025.2456844

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