Vocational Education in Israel: Wage Effects of the VocEd-Occupation Match
基于以色列数据，验证了职业教育毕业生若从事与所学专业相关的工作，其收入高于普通高中毕业生，并反驳了美国研究认为高收入仅源于职业本身而非培训的观点。
In an earlier paper based on Israeli census data, the authors showed that vocational school completers achieved higher earnings than their counterparts who attended academic secondary schools, but only if they worked in occupations related to the vocational course of study pursued. These findings were challenged by Lawrence Hotchkiss; using U.S. follow-up data from the High School and Beyond survey, he argued that the wage advantage of vocational school completers working in related occupations stemmed from employment in a well-paid occupation (a possibility not examined in our earlier estimating model) and was not the result of the training received. In this paper, we replicate the U.S. study using our Israeli data base; the results strongly confirm those from our earlier study. How may the contrasting results for Israel and the United States be explained? We suggest that the U.S. study may be faulted; its focus on young workers in theirfirst job after graduation, may have led to unduly pessimistic results with regard to the labor market outcomes of vocational schooling.