General versus Vocational Education: Lessons from a Quasi-Experiment in Croatia
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- Zilic, Ivan, 2018. "General versus vocational education: Lessons from a quasi-experiment in Croatia," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 62(C), pages 1-11.
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Keywords
general education; vocational training; reform;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- P20 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2016-11-06 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-EDU-2016-11-06 (Education)
- NEP-LMA-2016-11-06 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-TRA-2016-11-06 (Transition Economics)
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