General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Eric Hanushek, Guido Schwerdt, Ludger Woessmann and Lei Zhang

No 15113, Economics Working Papers from Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Abstract: Policy proposals promoting vocational education focus on the school-to-work transition. But with technological change, gains in youth employment may be offset by less adaptability and diminished employment later in life. To test for this trade-off, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across different ages for people with general and vocational education. Using micro data for 11 countries from IALS, we find strong and robust support for such a trade-off, especially in countries emphasizing apprenticeship programs. German Microcensus data and Austrian administrative data confirm the results for within-occupational-group analysis and for exogenous variation from plant closures, respectively.

JEL-codes: I20 J24 J31 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 66 pages
Date: 2015-10
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