Fig. 2From: What wages do people expect for vocational and academic education backgrounds in Switzerland?Source: Survey of Public Opinion on Education 2019–2020. Notes: The figure shows boxplots of the distribution of the relative differences of the wage expected for persons with an academic over the wage expected for persons with a vocational education background at age 30 or 50. For a description of the boxplots, see the notes of Fig. 1. As a reading example, the median relative difference of the wage expected for persons with an academic over the wage expected for persons with a vocational background at age 30 is 0.38 (i.e., 38% larger for academic vs. vocational), the first quartile is 0.2, and the third quartile is 0.6Distribution of relative differences in wage expectations. Back to article page