Public-private partnerships for skill development in the United States, Russia, and China

Abstract

We compare three countries where public policy has explicitly sought to align incentives of employers and educational institutions around closing the gap between skill formation and labor market demand. In large, heterogeneous countries such as the United States, Russia and China, collaborative arrangements such apprenticeships and other forms of public-private partnerships can be constructed at the subnational level by building on direct, face-to-face ties across educational, business, government, and civic sectors. Drawing on existing literature as well as fieldwork studying a number of specific cases in the three countries, the paper develops a typology of such arrangements and proposes an explanation for the observed variation. It emphasizes the importance of two sets of factors: those that induce cooperation on the part of firms and schools, and those that influence the character of such partnerships. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords

Author Keywords

labor market China Technical and Vocational Education (TVET) United States Russia Public-private partnerships

Index Keywords

China education United States skilled labor comparative study labor market demand analysis incentive Russian Federation public-private partnership

Author Affiliations

Peking University, Beijing, China

Department of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, Department of Political Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States, HSE University, Moscow, Russian Federation

Funding & Acknowledgements

Russian Science Foundation, RSF

Grant: 16-18-10425

This research was conducted with the support of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 16-18-10425, “Public-Private Partnerships in Vocational Education: Firm Level Evidence from Russia and China.” It forms part of a larger project conducted jointly with Israel Marques and Andrei Yakovlev of the Higher School of Economics. This research also received support from a grant from The National Social Science Fund of China, Grant No. 17BGL253, “Skill Formation and Regional Coordinated Innovation during Industry Upgrading.”

Russian Science Foundation, RSF

This research was conducted with the support of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 16-18-10425, “Public-Private Partnerships in Vocational Education: Firm Level Evidence from Russia and China.” It forms part of a larger project conducted jointly with Israel Marques and Andrei Yakovlev of the Higher School of Economics. This research also received support from a grant from The National Social Science Fund of China, Grant No. 17BGL253, “Skill Formation and Regional Coordinated Innovation during Industry Upgrading.”

National Research University Higher School of Economics, ВШЭ

This research was conducted with the support of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 16-18-10425, “Public-Private Partnerships in Vocational Education: Firm Level Evidence from Russia and China.” It forms part of a larger project conducted jointly with Israel Marques and Andrei Yakovlev of the Higher School of Economics. This research also received support from a grant from The National Social Science Fund of China, Grant No. 17BGL253, “Skill Formation and Regional Coordinated Innovation during Industry Upgrading.”

National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences, NPOPSS

Grant: 17BGL253

This research was conducted with the support of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 16-18-10425, “Public-Private Partnerships in Vocational Education: Firm Level Evidence from Russia and China.” It forms part of a larger project conducted jointly with Israel Marques and Andrei Yakovlev of the Higher School of Economics. This research also received support from a grant from The National Social Science Fund of China, Grant No. 17BGL253, “Skill Formation and Regional Coordinated Innovation during Industry Upgrading.”

National Office for Philosophy and Social Sciences, NPOPSS

This research was conducted with the support of a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 16-18-10425, “Public-Private Partnerships in Vocational Education: Firm Level Evidence from Russia and China.” It forms part of a larger project conducted jointly with Israel Marques and Andrei Yakovlev of the Higher School of Economics. This research also received support from a grant from The National Social Science Fund of China, Grant No. 17BGL253, “Skill Formation and Regional Coordinated Innovation during Industry Upgrading.”

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Public-private partnerships for skill development in the United States, Russia, and China

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