Arbeitspapier

Vocational High School Graduate Wage Gap: The Role of Cognitive Skills and Firms

Comparing cohorts born between 1951 and 1994, we document and interpret changes in the wage differential among graduates from secondary education with a vocational and a general curriculum. The wage gap initially increased and then decreased. We find that these changes cannot be attributed to simple compositional shifts in the economy, but instead relate to important changes in worker allocation to firms that are heterogeneous in wage policies: the demise of assortative matching between workers and firms that worked out favourably for vocational graduates.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11549

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Returns to Education
Thema
returns to education
vocational wage gap

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hartog, Joop
Raposo, Pedro
Reis, Hugo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2018

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hartog, Joop
  • Raposo, Pedro
  • Reis, Hugo
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2018

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