We examine the impact of internship experience during secondary education on students' schooling and early labour market outcomes by analysing unique, longitudinal data from Belgium. To control for unobservable differences between students with and students without internship experience, we estimate…
We provide-to the best of our knowledge-the first empirical study on the political economy of public spending on vocational education. Vocational schools raise human capital among non-Academics and give the latter a stronger bargaining position in wage negotiation-thereby supporting the clientele of…
This article studies the career effects of entering the labor market during a recession in Germany. Relying on administrative linked employer-employee data, and by exploiting institutional variation in the timing of graduation for identification, it provides new evidence on effect heterogeneities al…
It has been argued that vocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability to changing environments. Using the recent international data of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we confirm such a trade-offover the lif…
