Internships are a vital component of vocational education systems. The aim of this study is to understand whether internship programs at vocational schools are correlated with the long-run wages of students. To analyze this, I conduct three sets of analyses using longitudinal survey data from 2013 to 2014 on more than 12,000 vocational students in…

The research question for this study is how education level, gender, and social network affect migrant workers' starting income for their first job in China's urban cities. Our objective is to reveal the interplay of education level, gender, and social network in determining migrant workers' income, which are to the core of the current academic…