TY - BOOK ID - 137248000 TI - The Value of Vocational Education : High School Type and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia AU - Newhouse, David AU - Suryadarma, Daniel PY - 2009 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Academic education KW - Board of directors KW - Curriculum KW - Education KW - Education for All KW - Effective Schools and Teachers KW - Employment KW - Employment outcomes KW - High school graduates KW - High school level KW - High school students KW - High schools KW - Human development KW - Labor force KW - Labor Markets KW - Literature KW - Ministry of education KW - Papers KW - Primary Education KW - Private schools KW - Schools KW - Secondary Education KW - Skilled workers KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Social sciences KW - Tertiary Education KW - Vocational education KW - Vocational schools UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137248000 AB - This paper examines the relationship between the type of senior high school attended by Indonesian youth and their subsequent labor market outcomes. This topic is very timely, given the government's recent decision to dramatically expand vocational enrollment. The analysis controls for an unusually rich set of predetermined characteristics, and exploits longitudinal data spanning 14 years to separately identify cohort and age effects. There are four main findings. First, students are sorted into different school types largely on the basis of their entering exam score. Public schools attract the highest-scoring students, while private vocational schools serve the lowest-scoring students. Second, after controlling for a variety of characteristics, including test scores, male public school graduates earn a substantial premium over their privately schooled counterparts. Third, private vocational school graduates fare at least as well as private general graduates, despite coming from more disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. Finally, the returns to public vocational education have declined sharply for the most recent cohort of men. This raises important concerns about the current expansion of public vocational education, and the relevance of the male vocational curriculum in an increasingly service-oriented economy. ER -