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Does Dual Vocational Education and Training Pay Off?

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  • Samuel Bentolila
  • Antonio Cabrales
  • Marcel Jansen

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This paper analyzes the causal impact of dual vocational education and training (VET) on the labor market insertion of youth. Using matched education and social security records, we estimate the causal impact of a major reform that introduced a new dual track, which combines firm- and school-based training, on the labor market outcomes of the first three dual VET cohorts in the Spanish region of Madrid.

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  • Samuel Bentolila & Antonio Cabrales & Marcel Jansen, 2023. "Does Dual Vocational Education and Training Pay Off?," Studies on the Spanish Economy eee2023-34, FEDEA.
    • Handle: RePEc:fda:fdaeee:eee2023-34
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    • D92 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Intertemporal Firm Choice, Investment, Capacity, and Financing
    • G33 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Bankruptcy; Liquidation
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand

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