Comparing labor market performance of vocational and general school graduates in Indonesia: insights from stable and crisis conditions

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training

Table 2 Estimated results for number of months required for finding the first job

Explanatory variables	OLS Model	Heckman Model
Primary variable
School type (ref: general)	-7.6304***	-3.5922***
Control variables
Gender of respondents (ref: female)	-5.7590***	6.2820***
The provider of education (ref: private)	1.8109***	-1.5648***
Location (ref: outside Java)	-6.8553***	-4.7082***
Tye type of area (ref: rural)	6.7929***	5.6063***
\(\lambda\) (Inverse Mills Ratio)		47.2525***
Number of Observation	121,869	121,869

Note: (1) * p < .1, ** p < .05, *** p < .01; (2) Ref: Reference. All estimated results with a reference are relative to each reference
Source: authors’ analysis results