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General education vs vocational training : how do they affect individual performance ?

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  • Pavlina, KARASIOTOU

    (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES))

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Using the Panel Study of Belgian Households (PSBH, waves 4 to 10) we estimate the effects of education (initial and life-long, general and vocational) on incomes, labour supply and unemployment. This allows for a decomposition of the economic returns of education on earnings in two parts; one attributed on wages and one on employment time. The sample includes individuals 18-65 who have completed initial education at school or university, who are at the labour market and receive income from working. Individuals who are currently following a vocational after-school course are also included in the sample. We use Hausman-Taylor estimators, which are consistent in the presence of correlation between the unobserved individual effects and the explanatory variables and at the same time produce estimates for the time-invariant variables. The result show a large positive effect of initial education both on earnings and on employment; however, this positive effect is smaller for those who follow vocational or technical education while at school. On the other hand, continuous vocational training and life-long learning result to extra gains on top of the gains from initial education. There is a similar picture in the effect of education on unemployment time and labour supply.

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  • Pavlina, KARASIOTOU, 2004. "General education vs vocational training : how do they affect individual performance ?," LIDAM Discussion Papers IRES 2004018, Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
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    1. Gavan Conlon, 2001. "The differential in earnings premia between academically and vocationally trained males in the United Kingdom," CEE Discussion Papers 0011, Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE.
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