General Education versus Vocational Training: Evidence from an Economy in Transition

By Ofer Malamud, Cristian Pop-Eleches. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010

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The economic case for education† (2016, background): “Existing evidence on this mechanism is mixed, however; see Arum and Shavit (1995), Malamud and Pop-Eleches (2010), and the reviews and discussions in Ryan (2001), Müller (2009), Wolter and Ryan (2011), and Biavaschi et al. (2012).”
Do Students Benefit from Attending Better Schools? Evidence from Rule‐based Student Assignments in Trinidad and Tobago* (2010, unknown): “Malamud and Pop-Eleches (2010) find that students in Romania were less likely to work in manual or craft-related occupations when they received a general education.”
Five Characteristics of Youth Unemployment in Europe (2015, background): “…is mixed: In some cases for those with occupational-specific training, there are wage penalties; they receive similar wages or they even benefit from wage bonuses compared with those with general skills or educational qualifications (Malamoud & Pop-Eleches, 2010; van de Werfhorst, 2011).”