Economics of Cooperative Education

Name: Economics of Cooperative Education
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Economics of Cooperative EducationA practitioner's guide to the theoretical framework and empirical assessment of cooperative education\nAuthor(s): Yasushi Tanaka\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138056565, 978-1138056565\nSynopsis\nA considerable number of higher educational institutions in North America, Oceania, and Europe, offer what are known as cooperative education, work-integrated learning, work placements, sandwich courses, or internships, to provide pragmatic experience to students, and its popularity is spreading to many higher educational institutions in the world. Alongside such development, the rising needs for theoretical research and objective assessment are felt among those academics and practitioners involved in these programmes.\n\nThe book offers a rigorous theoretical framework based on the human capital theory of labour economics and econometric analysis, which are well-established conc.