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The Relation between Vocational Training in High School and Economic Outcomes

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  • Alan L. Gustman
  • Thomas L. Steinmeier

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This paper examines the relationships between various economic outcomes and vocational training in high school for those who have completed exactly twelve years of schooling. The authors attempt to determine whether the findings remain robust when different surveys and time periods of analysis, different measures of the quality and kind of vocational training, and other variations in specifications are used. Using some samples with particular specifications, the authors find evidence of positive returns to vocational schooling. For white females enrolled in business programs the evidence is strongest. For white males the evidence is much weaker, but the authors do find that trade and industry courses may have a positive influence on subsequent yearly earnings. Sample sizes for minorities are small, and so the findings for them remain unclear. Within specific sex and race groups the findings vary, sometimes widely, depending on the samples, time periods, and dependent variables used and on the specification of the estimating equation.

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  • Alan L. Gustman & Thomas L. Steinmeier, 1982. "The Relation between Vocational Training in High School and Economic Outcomes," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 36(1), pages 73-87, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:36:y:1982:i:1:p:73-87
    DOI: 10.1177/001979398203600105
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    1. Gustman, Alan L & Steinmeier, Thomas L, 1981. "The Impact of Wages and Unemployment on Youth Enrollment and Labor Supply," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 63(4), pages 553-560, November.
    2. Robert H. Meyer & David A. Wise, 1982. "High School Preparation and Early Labor Force Experience," NBER Chapters, in: The Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences, pages 277-348, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Alan L. Gustman & Martin Segal, 1974. "The Skilled-Unskilled Wage Differential in Construction," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 27(2), pages 261-275, January.
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    3. Daniel Kreisman & Kevin Stange, 2020. "Vocational and Career Tech Education in American High Schools: The Value of Depth Over Breadth," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 15(1), pages 11-44, Winter.
    4. Mane, Ferran, 1999. "Trends in the payoff to academic and occupation-specific skills: the short and medium run returns to academic and vocational high school courses for non-college-bound students," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 18(4), pages 417-437, October.

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