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Wage effects of an extra year of basic vocational education
Hessel Oosterbeek,D. Webbink +1 more
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In this paper, the authors evaluate the long-term wage effects of an extra year of basic vocational education using a difference-in-differences approach and find no beneficial effect from the change.About:
This article is published in Economics of Education Review.The article was published on 2007-08-01. It has received 116 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Vocational education & Wage.read more
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across different ages for people with general and vocational education, finding strong and robust support for such a tradeoff, especially in countries emphasizing apprenticeship programs.
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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using changes in compulsory schooling laws in West Germany after World War II and find no evidence that this is due to labor market institutions or the apprenticeship training system in Germany.
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A road map to vocational education and training in industrialized countries
TL;DR: In this paper, the silver bullet for the youth joblessness problem is viewed as the VET, which is the silver-bullet solution for the problem of youth unemployment in the US.
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Is Extending Compulsory Schooling Alone Enough to Raise Earnings? Evidence from French and British Compulsory Schooling Laws
TL;DR: The authors compare two reforms that raised the minimum school-leaving age to 16 in France (1967) and in England and Wales (1972) using a regression discontinuity design, and find that while the reform in English and Wales led to a 6−7 percent increase in hourly wages per additional year of compulsory schooling, the impact of the change to French law was close to zero.
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A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World
TL;DR: The authors provided a better understanding of VET around the world, dealing with three types of vocational systems: school-based education, a dual system in which schoolbased education is combined with firm-based training, and informal training.
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Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings
TL;DR: This paper found that the season of birth is related to educational attainment and earnings, and that roughly 25 percent of potential dropouts remain in school because of compulsory schooling laws. But, they did not study the effect of compulsory attendance laws on educational attainment.
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The causal effect of education on earnings
TL;DR: This paper surveys the recent literature on the causal relationship between education and earnings and concludes that the average (or average marginal) return to education is not much below the estimate that emerges from a standard human capital earnings function fit by OLS.
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Estimates of the economic return to schooling for the United Kingdom
Ian Walker,Colm Harmon +1 more
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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using changes in compulsory schooling laws in West Germany after World War II and find no evidence that this is due to labor market institutions or the apprenticeship training system in Germany.