Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education

Petri Böckerman (), Mika Haapanen and Christopher Jepsen

No 9079, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Outside the U.S., little is known about the labor-market returns to vocational (or polytechnic) postsecondary education. This paper focuses on the labor-market returns to polytechnic bachelor's degrees in Finland. Using detailed administrative data, we estimate person fixed effect models to study returns for individuals with labor-force attachment prior to polytechnic school enrollment. We find sizable earnings and employment impacts for polytechnic bachelor's degrees, although the returns vary by personal characteristics and field of study.

Keywords: vocational education; postsecondary education; labor-market returns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I26 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2015-05
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Published - published as "More Skilled, Better Paid: Labour-market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education" in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 485-508

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