Comprehensive Education or Vocational Training for the Unemployed?

Anders Stenberg ()

No 663, Umeå Economic Studies from Umeå University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The Adult Education Initiative (AEI) in Sweden was introduced in the autumn of 1997 and generated a massive expansion of subsidized adult comprehensive education. This paper uses data on a large sample of unemployed persons aged 25 to 55 to evaluate the effects of comprehensive upper secondary education as compared with the vocational part of Labour Market Training (LMT). Register data of annual wage earnings are available from 1991 to 2003. Fixed effects estimates indicate a weaker impact on wage earnings of comprehensive education relative to vocational training. However, for individuals aged 43-55 the parameters are insignificantly different from zero. Coefficient results close to zero are also obtained for females who prior to enrolment had two-year upper secondary school or resided in a municipality associated with a low average educational level.

Keywords: Adult education; wage earnings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H52 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2005-10-03
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