This paper investigates whether more general education reduces the risk of future unemployment by examining individuals' labor market experiences during the "Great Recession" (2008-2010). To estimate the causal impact of differences in educational content, I exploit a reform in Sweden in the...

Two common hypotheses regarding the relative benefits of vocational versus general education are (1) that vocational skills enhance relative short-term earnings and (2) that general skills enhance relative long-term earnings. Empirical evidence for these hypotheses has remained limited. Based on...

This paper estimates the causal effect of vocational high school (VHS) education on employment likeli-hood relative to general high school (GHS) education in Turkey using census data. To address non-random selection into high school types, we collect construction dates of the VHSs at the...