Vocational Education and Employment over the Life Cycle
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Andrea G. Forster, Thijs Bol, Herman G. van de Werfhorst Sociological Science, June 24, 2016 DOI 10.15195/v3.a21 Abstract Vocationally educated individuals often find employment sooner after school than those with a general educational qualification. A recent study has argued that the higher employment probability associated with a vocational qualification reverses in later life. The main explanation is that although having (occupation-)specific skills is an advantage when entering the labor mar