This paper investigates to what extent self-rated job-specific and generic skills and different types of educational signals are positively related to the labor market integration process of Dutch graduates, 18 months after finishing upper secondary vocational education. Our contributions to the current literature are that of simultaneously investigating these different types of skills and (a more extensive concept of) educational signals, and moreover examining to what extent the impact of self-rated specific skills and educational signals differ between the four labor market outcomes under investigation. We analyzed secondary survey data from the VET survey collected in the Netherlands in 2015. Results indicate that (1) self-rated specific skills—acquired either in education or on the job—are more positively related to favorable labor market outcomes than self-rated generic skills in the first 18 months of graduates’ integration process, (2) only certain educational signals positively impact labor market integration, and (3) the positive impact of self-rated specific skills and signals varies between different labor market outcomes.

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不同类型的技能和信号在青年劳动力市场整合中的作用

本文研究了在完成高中职业教育18个月后，自我评估的特定工作和通用技能以及不同类型的教育信号在多大程度上与荷兰毕业生的劳动力市场整合过程正相关。我们对当前文献的贡献在于，同时调查了这些不同类型的技能和（更广泛的概念）教育信号，并且研究了四个劳动力市场之间自我评价的特定技能和教育信号的影响在多大程度上有所不同调查结果。我们分析了2015年在荷兰收集的VET调查中的二次调查数据。