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: ROA rm
Title: High 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 andgeneral education background in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom,three countries with fundamentally different education systems. Using Mixed-EffectsLinear Regression Models we show that earnings of vocationally educated employeesare higher in the initial phase of their career. However, those with a general educationbackground catch up over time in the labor market. Life-cycle differences in earnings aremore pronounced in Germany than in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Keywords: labour economics ; 
Series: Research Memoranda
Creation-Date: 2011
Number: 007
File-URL: http://arnop.unimaas.nl/show.cgi?fid=23305
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 463629
Handle: RePEc:unm:umaror:2011007