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I mpacts of Demand‐ D riven Reforms on Access to Vocational Education and Training for People with Disability
Author(s) -
Polidano Cain
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2013.12033.x
Subject(s) - vocational education , counterfactual thinking , equity (law) , training (meteorology) , population , estimation , universal design , demographic economics , business , labour economics , economic growth , economics , political science , psychology , geography , sociology , demography , engineering , management , social psychology , meteorology , law , mechanical engineering
In this study, I examine the impacts of demand‐driven vocational education and training (VET) reforms on access to training for people with disability. Impacts are estimated for Victoria using population enrolment data and difference‐in‐differences estimation, using enrolments in New South Wales as the counterfactual. I find that the Victorian reforms substantially increased access to VET for people with disability, but not to the same extent as for those who are not equity group members. Of particular interest, results suggest that up‐skilling requirements that limited publicly funded places in VET to higher level courses restricted access by more for people with disability .