Vocational Education in Israel: Wage Effects of the VocEd-Occupation Match
Vocational Education in Israel: Wage Effects of the VocEd-Occupation Match
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以色列的职业教育：职业教育与职业匹配的工资效应
DOI：
10.2307/146351
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发表时间：
1999
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通讯作者：
A. Ziderman
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作者：
S. Neuman;A. Ziderman
在早些时候基于以色列人口普查数据的一篇论文中，作者表明，职业学校毕业生的收入高于他们在中等学校的同龄人，但前提是他们从事的职业与所从事的职业学习课程有关。劳伦斯·霍奇基斯（Lawrence Hotchkiss）对这些发现提出了质疑。他利用美国高中及高中以上调查的后续数据，认为职业学校毕业生在相关职业中的工资优势源于高薪职业的就业（在我们早期的估计模型中没有考察这种可能性），而不是接受培训的结果。在本文中，我们使用以色列的数据库复制了美国的研究;结果强烈证实了我们早期研究的结果。如何解释以色列和美国的对比结果？我们认为，美国的研究可能是错误的;它的重点是年轻工人在他们毕业后的第一份工作，可能会导致过度悲观的结果与职业教育的劳动力市场的结果。
In an earlier paper based on Israeli census data, the authors showed that vocational school completers achieved higher earnings than their counter-parts who attended academic secondary schools, but only if they worked in occupations related to the vocational course of study pursued. These findings were challenged by Lawrence Hotchkiss; using U.S. follow-up data from the High School and Beyond survey, he argued that the wage advantage of vocational school completers working in related occupations stemmed from employment in a well-paid occupation (a possibility not examined in our earlier estimating model) and was not the result of the training received. In this paper, we replicate the U.S. study using our Israeli data base; the results strongly confirm those from our earlier study. How may the contrasting results for Israel and the United States be explained? We suggest that the U.S. study may be faulted; its focus on young workers in their first job after graduation, may have led to unduly pessimistic results with regard to the labor market outcomes of vocational schooling.