Applying Data Driven Decision Making to rank Vocational and Educational Training Programs with TOPSIS

Conejero, J. M., Preciado, J. C., Prieto, A. E., Bas, M. C., Bolos, V. J.

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence 

The 2008 financial crisis that hit the world's economies has had a particularly acute impact in Spain (Guardiola and Guillen-Royo, 2015). It is only since 2014 that Spain seemed to begin its recovery (Martí and Pérez, 2015). However, this recuperation is still far to be acceptable with regard to the labor landscape (Casares and Vázquez, 2018). One of the main Spanish weaknesses that the crisis exposed was the so-called duality of the labor market. Thus, Spain is characterized by the existence of two very different types of workers. On one hand, long term workers on indefinite contracts, having both a very high job security and a very high cost for companies (especially in terms of dismissals) and usually with university studies even for jobs that do not require them.