Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207515 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12691
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We estimate the effect of the high school curriculum (or track) on the returns to college using data from the Italian PLUS (Participation Labour and Unemployment Survey) survey. We find that college graduates with vocational high school are less likely to be employed than graduates with academic high school. When employed, they earn 7.3 percent less per hour but work 3.8 percent more hours per week. They are less likely to fill high ranked occupations and more likely to find their first job quickly after school completion than other graduates. The wage penalty associated to vocational education in high school is larger for females than for males and for those born in the less economically developed Southern regions.
Subjects: 
high school curriculum
returns to college
Italy
JEL: 
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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