#11943. Short and long-term consequences of high-school tracks for earnings in Israel

July 2026publication date
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Abstract:
Vocational and academic curricula are said to hold both short-term and long-term consequences for economic outcomes. The literature on this topic, however, fails to address the long-term consequences of educational tracking. Just as important, this literature did not examine returns to high-school tracking within levels of further education. This paper aims to fill these gaps in the literature. Utilizing longitudinal data of men and women who graduated high school in the late 1980s and entered the labour market in the early 1990s, we examine their earning trajectories throughout age 50 in 20XX. The results indicate that for men without college degrees, vocational education provides pay premiums at labour-market entry. With time, however, these earnings’ premiums decline and diminish. A similar pattern characterizes degree holders, though the decline in the pay premiums is less steep when compared to men without a college degree. Taken together, our results indicate that the more substantial differences in earnings trajectories, among men and women alike, are associated with level of education and not with high-school tracks.
Keywords:
earnings trajectories; educational path; life course; vocational education

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