Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/225080 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 20-049
Publisher: 
ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung, Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the effect of alternative transition paths after grade 9 of German lower secondary school on vocational training. Using a selection-on-observables approach I show that a delayed transition into vocational training after lower track secondary school is not a disadvantage conditional on a successful transition into vocational training. Students benefit from continuing general schooling or attending vocational school compared to transitioning directly with regard to wages paid during vocational training as well as average wages, prestige, and socioeconomic status of the training occupation. This comes at the cost of a lower probability to match the training occupation with the reported desired occupation and being less satisfied with the vocational training. Participation in pre-vocational training does not lead to a different type of vocational training position than after a direct transition. However, those participants are less satisfied with their vocational training.
Subjects: 
school-to-work transition
secondary school
pre-vocational training
vocational training
JEL: 
J24
I28
I26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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