Information in the Labour Market : : Job-Worker Matching and Its Implications for Education in Ontario / / James Davies, Glenn MacDonald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Davies, James,; MacDonald, Glenn,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

This study uses a simple model of information gathering to generate policy recommendations concerning education in Ontario, especially at the post-secondary level. The schools are viewed as helping students discover jobs matched to their abilities, and policy prescriptions are offered from that standpoint. After examining earlier economic models of education – seeing it in terms of human capital and signalling – the authors analyse their informational model. In the light of the three theories of education, they then proceed to examine the appropriate role of government in the education market, and offer their policy recommendations. In addition, trends in the structure of education over the last two decades are studied and explained from the economic point of view. They argue that too much has been spent on formal education and not enough on on-the-job-training, but the answer is not more government intervention or vocationalism. Education policy should encourage free choice and an increasing ability to match interests or skills with jobs. Vocationalism merely hinders the latter and endangers economic well-being in the long term.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Earlier models of education: human capital and signalling -- 3. The informational model of schooling and job-worker matching -- 4. Education and training policy: basic guidelines -- 5. Education and training in Canada: recent trends and the current situation -- 6. Education and training in Canada: current issues -- 7. Policy conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography