Do vocational high school graduates have better employment outcomes than general high school graduates?

Torun, Hüzeyfe; Tümen, Semih

doi:10.1108/ijm-11-2017-0314

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“…Our findings are supported from previous literature for example , Funkhouser, 2006;Jadotte, 2009;Kemal & Naci, 2009;Fuchs, Kubis, &Schneider, 2016 andSefiddashti et al, 2016. Technical/vocational trainings is most often perceived to increase the labor market opportunities for youth (Malamud & Pop-Eleches;2010) and marginalized groups including less educated women. The found impact of training is to be positive on labor market activities, (Aslam & Rawal, 2013;Torun & Tumen, 2017). Our study also supports this notion.…”

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Low Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan: Causes and Factors

Andlib

Khan

2018

GSSR

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Pakistan has the lowest Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP) rate in the South Asian region. The study has used the latest round of Labor Force Survey 2014-15 and analyzed the individual and household factors that are associated with low FLFP in Pakistan. This study finds that there is less probability for urban women to take part in labor force activities. At national and regional level higher secondary and above levels of education have positive and significant relationship with FLFP whereas the situation is different for the four provinces of Pakistan. In case of Punjab province graduation and above levels of education are positively affiliated with FLFP, in Sind province higher secondary and above levels of education are positively associated with FLFP, in KPK province, matric and above levels of education are positively influencing FLFP decisions and in Baluchistan province primary and above levels of education are positively influencing women's decisions to participate in labor force activities. Women living in joint family systems, non-migrated, recipient of technical or vocational trainings are also more likely to participate in labor force activities. The study provides useful insights for policy makers to formulate appropriate policies to increase FLFP rate in Pakistan.

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Section: The Estimation Results Of Binary Probit Modelsupporting

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Low Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan: Causes and Factors

Andlib

Khan

2018

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“…As to the impact of migration on the employment status of women, it is found that migration is only significantly affecting women's employment status when women are working either as OAW or CFW (Fuchs et al 2016;Sefiddashti et al 2016). On similar lines, we see that technical/vocational training positively affects the choice of any employment status of a woman (Aslam and Rawal 2013;Torun and Tumen 2019). Compared to not working women, household size negatively affects the women's choice of opting for any employment status except for CFW in our selected sample (Usman and Sanusi 2016).…”

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Pathways towards Women Empowerment and Determinants of Decent Work Deficit: A South Asian Perspective

Sarfraz

Andlib

Kamran³

et al. 2021

Administrative Sciences

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This research aims to assess the household and individual-level factors, specifically education, that affect the probability of women being engaged in decent work activities in the labor market. The study utilized the most recent labor force survey data from Pakistan with a sample size of 64,009 women. The research exploits the multinomial logit model (MNL) for data analysis. Several studies exist on the causes of female labor force participation nationally—in Pakistan—and internationally. However, there is a lack of research exploring the link between women’s access to decent work and various household and individual-level characteristics. This study intends to fill this literature gap by exploiting the largest nationwide labor force survey and exploring how household and individual-level factors, specifically focusing on women’s education level, relate to women’s employment status categories. The study’s findings reveal that education plays an essential role in uplifting women for better employment opportunities, i.e., educated women are more likely to be engaged in decent labor market activities such as paid employees and employers. The findings of the study propose some significant policy implications. E.g., (i) since education is the key to open better and decent work opportunities, it is crucial for women and their household heads to invest in education and vocational training; (ii) there is a dire need to have a policy shift in providing women access to at least a higher secondary (HS) level of education in Pakistan. The rationale is that less educated and illiterate women are concentrated in vulnerable employment; and (iii) at a micro level, there is a need to bring awareness among male household heads, specifically in rural areas, to realize that working women should not be considered a social stigma for the household.

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“…12 That is, vocational education as such may not be enough. A study in Turkey(Torun and Tumen 2019), for instance, shows that for an individual who pursues a high school degree and does not aim for college education, vocational education does not increase employment prospects relative to general education.13 Of course, another important argument could be that on-the-job training provides better job-specific training than classroom training.…”

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Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia

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We analyze the effectiveness of a vocational training (VT) programme targeting unemployed youth in Latvia, contributing to the scant literature on active labour market policies in transition countries. The programme we analyse is part of the Youth Guarantee scheme (2014–2020), the largest action launched by the European Union to combat youth unemployment after the 2008 financial crisis. Although the programme was targeted to youths aged between 15 and 29, priority was given to those younger than 25 years of age. We exploit this eligibility rule in a fuzzy regression discontinuity design framework to estimate the impact of VT participation on the probability of being employed and gross monthly labour income at given dates after the training. Using rich administrative data, we find that the age priority rule increased programme participation for the youngest group by about 10 percentage points. However, participation in the programme did not lead to statistically significant positive effects in labour market outcomes. We argue that this result could be due to some specific characteristics of the programme, namely the voucher system (potentially inducing lock-in effects) and the type of training (classroom instead of on-the-job training). Moreover, the programme was targeted at ex-ante low-employable individuals (e.g. without vocational qualifications), a fact that is confirmed by our analysis of the characteristics of the population of compliers with the age priority rule.

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Do vocational high school graduates have better employment outcomes than general high school graduates?

Cited by 23 publications

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Low Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan: Causes and Factors

Low Female Labor Force Participation in Pakistan: Causes and Factors

Pathways towards Women Empowerment and Determinants of Decent Work Deficit: A South Asian Perspective

Vocational training for unemployed youth in Latvia

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