A bibliometric analysis of the vocational education and training (VET) literature in economics

The literature on Vocational Education and Trainingis more thansix decades old. The current review provides a bibliometric analysis of the literature employing 447Scopus-indexeddocuments from 1965to 2023 in the subject area of “Economics, Econometrics and Finance”.This is the first attemptto analyze VET-related literature published in ABS-listed journals in Economics. We reveal the current trends and show that publications grew substantially after 2014. Four clusters were identified and the most important themes were found to be: “vocational education and skill formation”, “vocational training and labor market outcomes”, “human capital and economic growth” and “apprenticeship contracts and training costs”. Based on the current knowledge structure, we discuss future directions of research.