Does Dual Vocational Education and Training Pay Off?

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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. The control group is composed of individuals who graduated in the same fields and years in school-based VET. Selection into dual VET is dealt with using a distance-based instrumental variable. Dual VET is found to generate sizeable improvements in employment and earnings, but no significant impact on job quality. The results are not driven by pre-reform differences in the quality of the schools that adopted dual VET and the higher retention rate of dual VET graduates only partly explains the dual premium.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16688

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Bankruptcy; Liquidation ; Labor Demand
• Subject: dual vocational education and training ; school-to-work transi- tion ; Spain

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bentolila, Samuel ; Cabrales, Antonio ; Jansen, Marcel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2023

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/282815
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET