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IZA Discussion Paper No. 11870
Vocational Training for Unemployed Youth in Latvia: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Massimiliano Bratti, Corinna Ghirelli, Enkelejda Havari, Giulia Santangelo
revised version published as 'Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 677 - 717
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11734
Labor-Market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling
Petri Böckerman, Mika Haapanen, Christopher Jepsen
published as 'Back to School: Labor-market Returns to Higher Vocational Schooling' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101758
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11586
Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills
Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Miriam Rinawi, Matthias Krapf
published as 'Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102235
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11549
Vocational High School Graduate Wage Gap: The Role of Cognitive Skills and Firms
Joop Hartog, Pedro Raposo, Hugo Reis
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11080
Early Tracking, Academic vs. Vocational Training and the Value of 'Second Chance' Options
Martin Biewen, Madalina Tapalaga
revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101900
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11027
The Effect of Immigrant Peers in Vocational Schools
Tommaso Frattini, Elena Meschi
published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 1-22
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10741
Modeling Enrollment in and Completion of Vocational Education: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills by Program Type
Leslie S. Stratton, Nabanita Datta Gupta, David Reimer, Anders Holm
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2018, 18(4), 1-17.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10741
Modeling Enrollment in and Completion of Vocational Education: The Role of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills by Program Type
Leslie S. Stratton, Nabanita Datta Gupta, David Reimer, Anders Holm
published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2018, 18(4), 1-17.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10655
How Effective Are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence
David McKenzie
published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2017, 32(2), 127-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10593
Earnings over the Life Course: General versus Vocational Education
Bart H.H. Golsteyn, Anders Stenberg
published in Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11(2), 167-212
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10507
Do Vocational High School Graduates Have Better Employment Outcomes than General High School Graduates?
Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40(8), 1364-1388
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10506
High School Track Choice and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from Urban Mexico
Ciro Avitabile, Matteo Bobba, Marco Pariguana
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10298
Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC
Franziska Hampf, Ludger Woessmann
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2017, 63 (3), 255-269
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10199
Barriers to Skill Acquisition: Evidence from English Training in India
Tarun Jain, Pushkar Maitra, Subha Mani
published in: World Development, 2019, 114, 314-325
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9804
The Impact of Television Programmes on Teenage Career Aspirations The 'MasterChef Effect'
Giorgio Di Pietro
revised version published as 'Do media play a role in promoting vocational education and training? The case of MasterChef' in: Policy Studies, 2018, 39 (1), 37-53
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9771
Does Activating Sick-Listed Workers Work? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Kai Rehwald, Michael Rosholm, Benedicte Rouland
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9699
Life-Cycle Educational Choices: Evidence for Two German Cohorts
Martin Biewen, Madalina Tapalaga
substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 80-94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9694
Fully Integrating Upper-Secondary Vocational and Academic Courses: A Flexible New Way?
Cain Polidano, Domenico Tabasso
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 117-131.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9509
Where Are the Returns to Lifelong Learning?
Michael Coelli, Domenico Tabasso
published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57 (1), 205-237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9275
The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Two British Cohorts
Giorgio Brunello, Lorenzo Rocco
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (1), 106-166
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