Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58481 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6309
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using a specific micro-dataset with information on working histories, we analyse the labour market entry of Spanish youths who have completed vocational education. According to the education system, young people can enter the labour market with vocational high school (upper secondary education) or with vocational college (tertiary education). Both present a period of workplace training, although, as they belong two distinct schooling levels, they have different entry requirements. Those who complete vocational college has spent more years in education and we would expect more success in finding a first job. Surprisingly, results do not confirm this hypothesis. We do not find important differences in the estimates of the determinants of transitions across types of vocational education. Apprenticeship has a very important role on increasing the hazard rate to employment and this result holds after controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and previous labour experience.
Subjects: 
duration models
vocational education
labour market entry
apprenticeship
JEL: 
J13
J24
I20
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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