TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Böckerman, Petri
AU  - Haapanen, Mika
AU  - Jepsen, Christopher
        TI  - Back to School? Labor-Market Returns to Vocational Postsecondary Education
        PY  - 2015/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9079
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9079
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - vocational education
KW  - postsecondary education
KW  - labor-market returns
        ER  -