【本期主题】General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-market Outcomes Over the Life-cycle

      Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across different ages for people with general and vocational education. Using micro data for 18 countries from the International Adult Literacy Survey, we find strong support for the existence of such a trade-off, which is most pronounced in countries emphasizing apprenticeship programs. Results are robust to accounting for ability patterns and to propensity-score matching.
【报告人】张 磊  清华大学中国财政税收研究所 高级研究员
                   美国斯坦福大学 经济学博士
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        张磊，清华大学中国财政税收研究所高级研究员，于2004年毕业于斯坦福大学，获经济学博士学位。张磊博士曾任美国克莱姆森大学助理教授，美国加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校的访问学者，她的研究领域为公共经济学、中国经济、教育经济学、发展经济学等。她的多篇论文发表在Journal of Development Economics，Journal of Human Capital等国际顶尖期刊上。

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