On the efficiency of school tracking: a perspective from outcomes in dual VET in Switzerland

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 7 The effect of lower secondary school track and grades on the accumulation of years of dual VET within a given ISCO, selected results

	Poisson part	Logistic part	Poisson part	Logistic part
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Low track	−0.145***	−2.453***
N	42,463
GPA	0.066**	0.990***	0.100	0.959***
GPA*low track			−0.042	−0.187
Low track	−0.175***	−2.161***	−0.194***	−2.208***
N	6889
Math score	0.107***	0.704***	0.099*	0.697***
Math score*low track			−0.015	−0.197
Low track	−0.162**	−2.121***	−0.159**	−2.147***
N	6869
PISA score	0.017	0.019
Low track	−0.258*	−2.523***
N	1540

Zero inflated Poisson estimated with robust variance. All other controls are included in all models. The dependent variable is the count of dual VET years accumulated
The reference case for the lower secondary school track is the high track
*0.10; **0.05; ***0.01