IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/uwp/jhriss/v59y2024i5p1535-1563.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Vocational versus General Upper Secondary Education and Earnings

Author

Listed:
  • Eskil Heinesen
  • Elise Stenholt Lange

Abstract

We estimate the effects of completing vocational rather than general upper secondary education programs on earnings at age 28 and, using surrogate index techniques, at age 40. We apply longitudinal administrative data for Denmark and marginal treatment effect models, with distances to educational institutions as instruments. We find significant and substantial heterogeneity in earnings effects consistent with selection on gains. A policy shifting students at the margin towards vocational education tends to have small and insignificant long†term effects for females and for males with low math skills, but negative long†term effects for males with high math skills.

Suggested Citation

  • Eskil Heinesen & Elise Stenholt Lange, 2024. "Vocational versus General Upper Secondary Education and Earnings," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 59(5), pages 1535-1563.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:59:y:2024:i:5:p:1535-1563
    Note: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0221-11497R2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://jhr.uwpress.org/cgi/reprint/59/5/1535
    Download Restriction: A subscripton is required to access pdf files. Pay per article is available.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • C36 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:59:y:2024:i:5:p:1535-1563. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://jhr.uwpress.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.