%0 Report
        %A Böckerman, Petri
%A Haapanen, Mika
%A Jepsen, Christopher
        %T Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education
        %D 2015
        %8 2015 May
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 9079
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9079
        %X Outside the U.S., little is known about the labor-market returns to vocational (or polytechnic) postsecondary education. This paper focuses on the labor-market returns to polytechnic bachelor's degrees in Finland. Using detailed administrative data, we estimate person fixed effect models to study returns for individuals with labor-force attachment prior to polytechnic school enrollment. We find sizable earnings and employment impacts for polytechnic bachelor's degrees, although the returns vary by personal characteristics and field of study.
        %K vocational education
%K postsecondary education
%K labor-market returns