The Work-To-School Transition: Job Displacement and Skill Upgrading among Young High School Dropouts

Patrick Bennett

No 9417, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper examines how and why returning to education fosters recovery from negative employment shocks among high school dropouts. High school dropout remains a problem, particularly as employment is increasingly skilled over time. Exploiting a policy expanding a Norwegian vocational certification scheme in a triple difference framework, workers displaced post-expansion certify their skills at significantly higher rates relative to those displaced pre-expansion. Increases in certification post-expansion significantly reduce income losses after job loss. Certifying skills fosters recovery among early career displaced workers through the retention of relevant industry-specific human capital, which increases job stability over 20 years later.

Keywords: job displacement; vocational education; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 J63 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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