Returns to education: accounting for enrolment and completion effects.

VOCATIONAL education; HIGHER education & economics; EMPLOYMENT of college graduates; LABOR market; POSTSECONDARY education; AUSTRALIAN economy; HIGHER education; ADULTS; ECONOMICS

This paper contributes to the literature by separately analysing the course enrolment and completion effects of vocational education and training (VET) as well as higher education. Moreover, we investigate the persistence of these wage effects over time while controlling for two potential selection biases. We take advantage of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth, which contains comprehensive information about completed and uncompleted courses and subsequent labour market outcomes. We find evidence of positive enrolment and completion effects for VET and university courses with important differences by type of course. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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