Vocational Education and Employment: Explaining Cohort Variations in Life Course Patterns

Kratz, Fabian; Patzina, Alexander; Kleinert, Corinna; Dietrich, Hans

doi:10.17645/si.v7i3.2045

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“…Moreover, this finding indicates that less educated individuals are more likely to end up in physically demanding jobs, and as a consequence, physical health gains more importance for that particular group. This result is in line with findings from life course research (Kratz et al, 2019). Note that the effects of physical health are very small, which is not surprising, however, because in our observation window characterized by an extensive demand for qualified workers, almost everyone in our sample finds employment within six months.…”

Section: Heterogeneity Across School Degree Levelssupporting

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Health, Personality Disorders, Work Commitment and Training to Employment Transitions

Patzina¹,

Dietrich²,

Barabasch³

2021

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This study analyzes the influence of mental and physical health, coping abilities, cooperativeness, and work commitment on the transition from apprenticeship training to a first job. In doing so, we first investigate transitions to regular employment within six months post-graduation. Second, we analyze gapless transitions from training to a first job. Third, we investigate transitions to a decent first job. This study draws on a unique dataset of 1,061 individuals from Germany that combines rich survey and register data. The baseline survey takes place during the last year of training for these individuals and contains information on their schooling, health, personality disorders and work attitudes. The register data measure the training environment and labor market outcomes. The results from linear probability models reveal that only physical health is associated with finding a first job within six months. Physical and mental health are associated with gapless transitions. Overall health, coping abilities and work commitment are important in terms of finding decent employment. However, when conditioning on individual and training firm characteristics, these associations are weakened and become statistically insignificant. Thus, the constructs under study might drive school graduates into certain training firms and occupations leading to decent first jobs. Fourth, our results indicate that the effect of overall health on gapless transitions is largest for individuals with higher levels of education, while the overall health effect is almost zero for those who are least educated. Thus, this study provides evidence of a cumulative disadvantage of the least educated in the school-to-work transition.

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Section: Heterogeneity Across School Degree Levelssupporting

confidence: 91%

Health, Personality Disorders, Work Commitment and Training to Employment Transitions

Patzina¹,

Dietrich²,

Barabasch³

2021

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“…In a similar vein, educational attainment in adulthood and the concomitant labour market outcomes are related to individuals' social background and occupational status (Bratsberg et al, 2019;Luchinskaya & Dickinson, 2019). Last but not least, two cohort comparisons provide the first tentative evidence that the relationship between types of education and labour market outcomes may have changed over time (Glauser et al, 2019;Kratz et al, 2019). However, the reasons are difficult to pinpoint with the available data.…”

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“…Employment is also the focus of Kratz, Patzina, Kleinert and Dietrich's (2019) contribution. It analyses changes in employment patterns of workers with general and vocational education across cohorts.…”

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Types of Education, Achievement and Labour Market Integration over the Life Course

Kriesi¹,

Schweri²

2019

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Over the last 15 years, research on the effects of different types of education on labour market integration and labour market outcomes has evolved. Whereas much of the early work analysed school-to-work transition outcomes, the focus of more recent studies has shifted to the relationship between educational achievement and mid- and long-term labour market outcomes. The overarching question of this body of research asks whether the allocation to different types of education leads to different skill sets, to different employment opportunities and to jobs offering unequal wages, job autonomy or job security. However, pivotal issues related to the comparison of vocational and general types of education or upper-secondary and tertiary-level qualification remain ambiguous and are hampered by a lack of suitable data and methodological problems. The aim of this issue is to further this debate and to provide more insights into the relationship between individual and contextual factors, allocation within the educational system, educational achievement and labour market outcomes over the life course. The 12 articles collected in this issue highlight the importance of focussing on the specific features and functions of different education tracks and programs, of applying data and methods suitable for such analyses and of considering the interplay of different determinants of education outcomes, such as social origin, gender or ethnicity.

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“…On the other side, despite advantage of VET graduates in employment and income at beginning, losing of their skills or negative effects of difficulties which they can experience in meeting recently arising skills in their life-time employment came to the fore in recent studies (Hanushek et al, 2017;Kratz et al, 2019). In this context, Hanushek et al (2017) first studied the lifetime returns to vocational versus general education by investigating the employment status and income of both vocational and general education graduates, and found that VET graduates have the advantage in employability and income levels immediately after graduation.…”

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“…When the VET is offered in such an occupation-specific way as in Germany, it seems that there exists a trade-off over the lifetime returns. Kratz et al (2019) attempted to provide more insight into this trade-off based on cohort variations in life course patterns. They found that the advantage of VET graduates is more pronounced across cohorts at younger ages.…”

Section: Skill Mismatch Field-of-study Mismatch and Penaltymentioning

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The Linkage between Vocational Education and Labor Market in Turkey: Employability and Skill Mismatch

Özer

Suna

2020

Kastamonu Eğitim Dergisi

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Countries structure their vocational education and training (VET) systems based on the demands of labor market. As the changes in labor market directly affect VET, VET is the education type which needs transformation in education system to the greatest extent. Although performance of VET depends on the relationship between VET and labor market, this fact is ignored in most countries. Under this circumstance, horizontal or vertical skill mismatches arise predominantly in labor market. When this strong interaction between education and labor market is ignored, policies to eliminate the skill mismatch focus only on VET, issues in labor market are neglected, consequently, problems cannot be solved and on the contrary, these problems become consistent. In this study, VET in Turkey is reviewed in employment and skill mismatch perspectives. Despite the high employment ratios of VTAH graduates, they are employed mostly out of their field of education, therefore, it is seen that horizontal skill mismatch is widespread. On the other hand, skill surpluses in labor market attract a considerable deal of attention. It is suggested to restructure the location and training capacity of VTAHs considering supply-demand balance. Besides, it is suggested to restructure VTAHs in such a way that they concentrate more on academic skills rather than occupationally specific skills, so VET can be more flexible and increase mobility. In addition, in VTCs, where apprenticeship training is provided through a strong collaboration with labor market, it is observed that skill mismatch is at quite low level and it is suggested to increase the capacity of VTCs due to high demand.

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Vocational Education and Employment: Explaining Cohort Variations in Life Course Patterns

Cited by 20 publications

References 32 publications

Health, Personality Disorders, Work Commitment and Training to Employment Transitions

Health, Personality Disorders, Work Commitment and Training to Employment Transitions

Types of Education, Achievement and Labour Market Integration over the Life Course

The Linkage between Vocational Education and Labor Market in Turkey: Employability and Skill Mismatch

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