Risk‐return trade‐offs to different educational paths: vocational, academic and mixed

Tuor, Simone N.; Backes‐Gellner, Uschi

doi:10.1108/01437721011066335

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“…In a second robustness check we use a different sample. As the type of university could influence labour market entry and career development differently (Dearden et al ., 2002; Tuor and Backes‐Gellner, 2010), we estimate all models only for tertiary academic education, dropping graduates of universities of applied sciences (see Tables A6 and A7 in Appendix). This robustness check shows very similar effects of ‘earning while learning’ as in our basic analysis and thus confirms our findings.…”

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Earning While Learning: When and How Student Employment is Beneficial

Geel

Backes‐Gellner

2012

Labour

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Although studies of student employment (‘earning while learning’) mostly find positive wage effects, they do not adequately consider the relation of the employment to the field of study. We investigate how different types of student employment during tertiary education affect short‐ and long‐term labour market returns. Beyond examining differences between non‐working and part‐time working students, we distinguish between student employment related and unrelated to the field of study. Our results show significant positive labour market returns of ‘earning while learning’ only for student employment related to the field of study. These returns consist of a lower unemployment risk, shorter job‐search duration, higher wage effects, and greater job responsibility.

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Earning While Learning: When and How Student Employment is Beneficial

Geel

Backes‐Gellner

2012

Labour

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“…One notable exception is Switzerland, 2 a country with an extensive vocational education system that attracts two-thirds of the individuals in every cohort (Tuor and Backes-Gellner, 2010). The Swiss educational system allows students to achieve tertiary education degrees for both academic and vocational tracks.…”

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Heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution: Who profits the most?

Balestra

Backes‐Gellner

2017

Labour Economics

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This study presents evidence of heterogeneous returns to education over the wage distribution. The authors use instrumental variable quantile regression and data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey to identify the causal link between education and wages at different quantiles of the conditional distribution of wages. The results provide evidence that there is no unique causal effect of schooling and that for each individual the effect may deviate from those extensively documented by ordinary least squares or two-stage least squares. In particular, while ordinary quantile regression estimates increasing returns in the quantile index, once the endogeneity of schooling is taken into account the authors instead observe higher returns at lower quantiles of the wage distribution. Interpreting the quantile index as a measure of unobserved ability, the results suggest that higher-ability individuals have higher wages, but the slope of their wage-education profile is flatter than that for lowerability individuals.

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“…In , using regional stratification and rare events of entrepreneurial events, it is found that the generalist notion is supported. See also Backes-Gellner et al (2010) and Tuor and Backes-Gellner (2010). tions have significantly increased productivity in the past and could also do so in the future.…”

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confidence: 96%