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The Value of Vocational Education : High School Type and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia

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dc.contributor.authorNewhouse, David
dc.contributor.authorSuryadarma, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-20T21:50:12Z
dc.date.available2013-05-20T21:50:12Z
dc.date.issued2011-05-31
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the relationship between the type of senior high school attended by Indonesian youth and their subsequent labor market outcomes. This topic is timely in light of a recent policy shift that aims to dramatically expand vocational education. The analysis controls for an unusually rich set of predetermined characteristics, and exploits longitudinal data spanning fourteen years to separately identify cohort and age effects. There are four main findings. First, the estimated wage premium for vocational graduates, relative to general graduates, is greater for women than men. Second, the returns to public vocational school for men have plummeted for the most recent cohort, and male vocational graduates now face a large wage penalty. Third, the generally favorable outcomes of public school graduates can be partly explained by non-random sorting of students with higher test scores and better-educated parents into public schools. Finally, these peer effects appear to be particularly important for students with above-average test scores, as men with high scores earn a surprisingly small premium from graduating from vocational or private general school. These small returns for high-scoring men, as well as the dramatic fall in the earnings premium for all male vocational graduates, raise important concerns about the current expansion of public vocational education and the relevance of the male vocational curriculum in an increasingly service-oriented economy.en
dc.identifier.citationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/13476
dc.identifier.issn1564-698X
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.1093/wber/lhr010
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/13476
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subjectacademic education
dc.subjectcurriculum
dc.subjectemployment
dc.subjectemployment outcomes
dc.subjecthigh school graduates
dc.subjecthigh school level
dc.subjecthigh schools
dc.subjectinformation technology
dc.subjectlabor force
dc.subjectliterature
dc.subjectMinistry of Education
dc.subjectnational examinations
dc.subjectprivate schools
dc.subjectschools
dc.subjectsecondary education
dc.subjectskilled workers
dc.subjectsocial science
dc.subjectstudent costs
dc.subjectVocational Education
dc.subjectvocational schools
dc.titleThe Value of Vocational Education : High School Type and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesiaen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaJobs
okr.date.disclosure2012-11-30
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-06T11:18:28.650842Z
okr.doctypeJournal Article
okr.globalpracticeEducation
okr.globalpracticeSocial Protection and Labor
okr.globalpracticeEducation
okr.identifier.doi10.1093/wber/lhr010
okr.journal.nbpages296-322
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryIndonesia
okr.topicEducation::Education For All
okr.topicEducation::Effective Schools and Teachers
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Vocational & Technical Education
okr.volume25(2)
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