Volume 26, Number 2 (Spring) 1991
Neuman, Shoshana and Adrian Ziderman. 1991. "Vocational Schooling, Occupational Matching, and Labor Market Earnings in Israel." Journal of Human Resources 26(2):256-281.
This paper examines the efficacy (in terms of labor market outcomes) of vocational school education in Israel as compared with that of academic schools. Using data from the 1983 population census, the study shows vocational schooling, which accounts for half of secondary school education for those students who do not go on to higher education. In particular, those who complete vocational school and who work in occupations related to a course of study pursued at school earn more (by up to 10 percent annually) than their counterparts who attended general secondary schools or those from vocational schools who are employed in noncourse-related occupations. These results provide strong reinforcement of recent, broadly similar studies for the United States.
Adrian Ziderman is at the World Bank, Washington, D.C., on leave from Bar Ilan University, Israel, where he is a professor of economics. Shoshana Neuman is Lecturer in Economics at Bar Ilan University. The authors feel that the paper has been much improved as a result of helpful comments from two anonymous referees. The views expressed in the paper are the authors' and should not be taken as representing those of the institutions with which they are affiliated. The data used in this article can be obtained beginning in October 1991 through October 1994 from the authors at the following address: Economics Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
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