Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience

Autor/inn/en	Bockerman, Petri; Hamalainen, Ulla; Uusitalo, Roope
Titel	Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 28 (2009) 6, S.672-681 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2009.02.004
Schlagwörter	Employment Level; Labor Market; College Graduates; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Vocational Education; Educational Policy; Improvement Programs; Educational Improvement; Program Effectiveness; Economics; Outcomes of Education; Educational Indicators; Comparative Analysis; Followup Studies; Education Work Relationship; Postsecondary Education; Finland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Beschäftigungsgrad; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Effizienzsteigerung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Volkswirtschaftslehre; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Finnland
Abstract	This paper evaluates the labour market effects of the introduction of the polytechnic education system in Finland. The polytechnic reform gradually transformed former vocational colleges into polytechnics. Since the timing of the reform differed across schools, we can compare the performance of polytechnic graduates to the performance of vocational college graduates controlling for both the year and the school effects. The results are somewhat sensitive to how the selectivity issues are treated but generally suggest that both the earnings and the employment levels of post-reform graduates are higher in the field of business and administration. The effects are much smaller and usually insignificant in other fields. (Contains 2 figures and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10