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Fluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education: lessons from Portugal

dc.contributor.authorRaposo, Pedro Miguel
dc.contributor.authorHartog, Joop
dc.contributor.authorReis, Hugo
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-28T14:12:44Z
dc.date.available2022-01-28T14:12:44Z
dc.date.issued2022-04
dc.description.abstractWe document and analyse the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education in Portugal between 1994 and 2013. As Portuguese workers have been educated in different school systems, we have to distinguish between birth cohorts. Analysing the wage gaps within cohorts, we find no support for either the human capital prediction of crossing wage profiles or the hypothesis that general graduates increasingly outperform vocational graduates in late career. We discover that the life- cycle wage profiles have shifted over time. We link the pattern of shifting cohort profiles to changes in the school system and in the structure of labour demand. We conclude that assessing the relative value of vocational education requires assessing how the vocational curriculum responds to changes in economic structure and technology. We show that the decline in assortative matching between workers and firms has benefited vocationally educated workers.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00148-021-00846-1pt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85107463713
dc.identifier.issn0933-1433
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/36567
dc.identifier.wos000658154500001
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectHuman capitalpt_PT
dc.subjectReturns to educationpt_PT
dc.subjectVocational wage gappt_PT
dc.subjectWorker-firm allocationpt_PT
dc.titleFluctuations in the wage gap between vocational and general secondary education: lessons from Portugalpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage675pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue2pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage643pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleJournal of Population Economicspt_PT
oaire.citation.volume35pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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