Maria Esther Oswald-Egg
Biographic Data
| ID | 6329753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Esther Oswald-Egg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Oswald-Egg |
| SIGNATURE | OSWALD-EGG M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | ETH Zurich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2154-3798 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New information, new interests? Impact of an occupation finder on vocational choices of lower secondary students
When making career-defining decisions, individuals should be well-informed. This study examines the impact of a low-cost personalised information intervention on occupational choices for students in lower-secondary education in Switzerland. Using data from an online platform and a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we analyse how a tool called occupation finder affects the number of occupations students apply to. The findings show that tailor…
Vocational education and training (VET) system governance
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership
Education governance networks are increasingly common and very diverse. In a strategic case study, we apply a new social network analysis method to evaluate the sustainability of a public-private education governance network. We examine the balance of satisfaction across public and private sectors and the network’s fairness in terms of whether actor groups’ investments in the network are proportional to their influence. We find that this establis…
Keep It Up Switzerland! Four Empirical Studies on Dual Vocational Education and Training
This thesis adds empirical evidence to the growing literature on dual VET using Switzerland as a case study. The first chapter examines lower-secondary education students’ occupational choices upon entering dual VET. I show that it is possible to provide those students with low-cost personalised information that expands the set of occupations they consider. The second chapter examines whether having done dual VET as a first career step is benefic…
Valuable Experience
This paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address endogeneity with an IV approach that exploits information regarding whether the internship was a mandatory component of the study. We further address selection into programs with mandatory internship by using the share of mandatory internships at the closest university, exploiting the low mobility of Swiss students. The results show th…
No experience, no employment
Higher education graduates with work experience enter the labour market more smoothly. This study analyses how work experience from vocational education and training (VET) affects labour market outcomes after higher education. To account for selection into VET, we use the regional enrolment rate as an instrument for upper-secondary VET. Results suggest that work experience gained during VET leads to significantly higher wages of 7% to 19% one yea…
Meet the need – the role of vocational education and training for the youth labour market
To combat negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world support vocational education and training (VET) programmes. This paper investigates how enrolment rates in upper‐secondary education programmes – general education, school‐based VET and dual VET – affect ten youth labour market indicators on integration and job quality. We run first‐difference generalized method of moments regressions on panel data of 36 countries…
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership
Education governance networks are increasingly common and very diverse. In a strategic case study, we apply a new social network analysis method to evaluate the sustainability of a public-private education governance network. We examine the balance of satisfaction across public and private sectors and the network’s fairness in terms of whether actor groups’ investments in the network are proportional to their influence. We find that this establis…
Valuable Experience
This paper analyzes whether and how attending an internship during tertiary education affects income. We address endogeneity with an IV approach that exploits information regarding whether the internship was a mandatory component of the study. We further address selection into programs with mandatory internship by using the share of mandatory internships at the closest university, exploiting the low mobility of Swiss students. The results show th…
No experience, no employment
Higher education graduates with work experience enter the labour market more smoothly. This study analyses how work experience from vocational education and training (VET) affects labour market outcomes after higher education. To account for selection into VET, we use the regional enrolment rate as an instrument for upper-secondary VET. Results suggest that work experience gained during VET leads to significantly higher wages of 7% to 19% one yea…
Meet the need – the role of vocational education and training for the youth labour market
To combat negative trends in the youth labour market, policymakers around the world support vocational education and training (VET) programmes. This paper investigates how enrolment rates in upper‐secondary education programmes – general education, school‐based VET and dual VET – affect ten youth labour market indicators on integration and job quality. We run first‐difference generalized method of moments regressions on panel data of 36 countries…
Keep It Up Switzerland! Four Empirical Studies on Dual Vocational Education and Training
This thesis adds empirical evidence to the growing literature on dual VET using Switzerland as a case study. The first chapter examines lower-secondary education students’ occupational choices upon entering dual VET. I show that it is possible to provide those students with low-cost personalised information that expands the set of occupations they consider. The second chapter examines whether having done dual VET as a first career step is benefic…
The networked role of intermediaries in education governance and public-private partnership
Education governance networks are increasingly common and very diverse. In a strategic case study, we apply a new social network analysis method to evaluate the sustainability of a public-private education governance network. We examine the balance of satisfaction across public and private sectors and the network’s fairness in terms of whether actor groups’ investments in the network are proportional to their influence. We find that this establis…
Vocational education and training (VET) system governance
New information, new interests? Impact of an occupation finder on vocational choices of lower secondary students
When making career-defining decisions, individuals should be well-informed. This study examines the impact of a low-cost personalised information intervention on occupational choices for students in lower-secondary education in Switzerland. Using data from an online platform and a regression discontinuity design (RDD), we analyse how a tool called occupation finder affects the number of occupations students apply to. The findings show that tailor…
Economics (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Vocational education (5 works) · Education Systems and Policy (4 works) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Human capital (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Apprenticeship (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works)