Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Cörvers Frank 
Author-Name: Heijke Hans 
Author-Name: Kriechel Ben 
Author-Name: Pfeifer Harald 
Author-workplace-name: METEOR
Title: Highly and steady or low and rising? Life cycle earnings patterns in vocational and general education.
Abstract: In this paper, we compare experience-earnings profiles of employees with vocational and generaleducation background in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, three countries withfundamentally different education systems. Using Mixed-Effects Linear Regression Models we showthat earnings of vocationally educated employees are higher in the initial phase of their career.However, those with a general education background catch up over time in the labor market.Life-cycle differences in earnings are more pronounced in Germany than in the United Kingdom andthe Netherlands.
Keywords: education, training and the labour market; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 042
File-URL: http://edocs.ub.unimaas.nl/loader/file.asp?id=1626
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 462791
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamet:2011042