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Table 3 Descriptive statistics after matching

From: Does tertiary vocational education beat academic education? A matching analysis of young men’s earnings developments

 

Foremen

N = 2097

Academics

N = 2097

t test

Mean (SD)

Mean (SD)

“Education phase”

 Full-time work experience

0.72

0.31

 

 Part-time work experience

0.05

0.14

 

 Unemployment period

0.09

0.06

 

 Time outside of labour market

0.14

0.49

 

 Time between apprenticeship and start as foremen/academic

2400.79 (1342.50)

2837.77 (1048.99)

10.84

“Return phase”

 Age at first employment as academic or foremen

27.95 (4.47)

28.90 (3.35)

7.20

 Location of entry establishment

0.78

0.80

1.15

 Tenure

2.67 (3.86)

0.83 (1.80)

17.82

 Average income level of entry establishment

4.31 (0.36)

4.54 (0.39)

18.35

 Same establishment as during apprenticeship

0.17

0.04

 

 Same establishment as first employment after apprenticeship

0.20

0.05

 

 Size of entry establishment

  Less than 250 employees

  250–1000 employees

  More than 1000 employees

0.75

0.13

0.12

0.52

0.25

0.23

 

 Entry wage

4.35 (0.47)

4.21 (0.76)

7.13

  1. Source: LIAB longitudinal model 93-10