The labour market position of narrow versus broad vocational education programmes

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 3 Labour market indicators of narrow versus broad VE programmes, logit/OLS estimates (controls: job in own domain and at own level)

	Narrow programme	Within own domain	At the own level
Unemployment (logit)	0.586***
Duration of search (OLS)	0.096
Job within own domain (logit, level as control)	−0.459***		2.146***
Job at own level (logit)	−0.211*
Job at own level (logit, domain as control)	−0.015	2.143***
Log gross hourly wage (OLS)	−0.070***
Log gross hourly wage (OLS, domain and level as controls)	−0.060***	0.060***	0.127***
(Very) many career options (logit, domain and level as controls)	−0.548***	0.081	0.571***
(Very) satisfied with job (logit, domain and level as controls)	−0.089	0.422***	0.498***

The superscripts ***, **, and * indicate significance at the 1, 5, and 10 % levels, respectively. Logit estimates are represented by the log odds ratios. Full estimation results are shown in Table 5 of Appendix 2