This confirms the hypothesis that the job-specific nature of vocational education reduces its value in unrelated jobs. These are particularly worrisome cases because they imply that completing coursework is necessary but not sufficient to realize economic benefit and that placement in a related occupation is crucial. Overall, these results confirm the importance of finding related rather than unrelated employment. For educational institutions and policymakers, these results confirm the value of efforts to link programs to employers and to help students find jobs related to their programs of study. Standard errors are in parentheses.
Standard errors are in parentheses.
Standard errors are in parentheses. Standard errors are in parentheses. Standard errors are in parentheses. Standard errors are in parentheses. However, differences in the definition of relatedness and uncertainty about the matching algorithm make comparisons with the SIPP results in Table 6 problematic.