Effects of Training, Occupation, and Training-Occupation Match on Wage
利用高中后两年内首次就业数据，发现培训与职业匹配对工资的正效应实际来自职业类型，而非培训或匹配本身，对劳动经济学和职业教育研究者有参考价值。
This paper investigates the interactions of secondary vocational training and training-related occupation on the wage of the first job obtained in the two years immediately after high school. Prior empirical tests of the importance of a training-related occupation in determining labor market outcomes are misspecified because they do not separate training-related effects from effects of the type of occupation entered. Since the concept of a training-related occupation is based on a match between the type of training and the type of occupation, it is possible that apparent effects of a training-related occupation are, in fact, only an effect of the occupation with which the training is matched. We use data from the younger cohort of the High School and Beyond sample to conduct an evaluation of the importance of a training-related occupation. Our findings agree with past research in that large positive coefficients are associated with work in a training-related occupation when the type of occupation is omitted from the model. However, when the type of occupation is included, nearly all the effects on wage are associated with occupation and not with training nor with a training-related occupation. Estimates from both OLS and switching regressions are consistent with these conclusions.