Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling
Abstract
This paper examines the labor-market returns to a new form of postsecondary vocational education, vocational master's degrees. We use individual fixed effects models on the matched sample of students and non-students from Finland to capture any time-invariant differences across individuals. Attendance in vocational master's programs leads to higher earnings of eight percent five years after entry even if selection on unobservables is twice as strong as selection on observables. Earnings gains are similar by gender and age, but they are marginally higher for health than for business or technology and trades.
Main Authors
Format
Report
Published
2018
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
IZA Institute of Labor Economics
Original source
https://ftp.iza.org/dp11734.pdf
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201902181559Käytä tätä linkitykseen.
Review status
Non-peer reviewed
ISSN
2365-9793
Language
English
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IZA Discussion Paper
Citation
- Böckerman, P., Haapanen, M., & Jepsen, C. (2018). Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling. IZA Institute of Labor Economics. IZA Discussion Paper, 11734. https://ftp.iza.org/dp11734.pdf
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