Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/180880 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CHCP Working Paper No. 2017-2
Publisher: 
The University of Western Ontario, Centre for Human Capital and Productivity (CHCP), London (Ontario)
Abstract: 
We examine the role of cognitive and non-cognitive skills on enrollment in and completion of three types of vocational training (VET): education/health, technical, and business. Using two nine-year panels of Danish youths, estimation proceeds separately by gender, controlling for selection and right censoring. Cognitive skills are captured with math and language exam scores, non-cognitive skills with teacher-assigned grades. We find that all skills are inversely related to enrollment and math scores are positively related to certification for all VET programs. Language skills are, however, inversely related to completion for technical VET and non-cognitive skills are important only for business VET.
Subjects: 
Vocational education
Enrollment
Vocational certification
JEL: 
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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