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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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11549
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Returns to Education
- Subject
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returns to education
vocational wage gap
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hartog, Joop
Raposo, Pedro
Reis, Hugo
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2018
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hartog, Joop
- Raposo, Pedro
- Reis, Hugo
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2018
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