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Vocational versus General Upper Secondary Education and Earnings

View ORCID ProfileEskil Heinesen and View ORCID ProfileElise Stenholt Lange
Journal of Human Resources, September 2024, 59 (5) 1535-1563; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.0221-11497R2
Eskil Heinesen
Eskil Heinesen is a research professor at the ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen, Denmark (corresponding author: .
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Elise Stenholt Lange is a postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University, Denmark
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