Returns to General, Technical and Vocational Education in Developing Countries:recent evidence from Suriname

Horowitz, Andrew W.; Schenzler, Christopher

doi:10.1080/09645299900000001

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“…Returns to vocational training were found to be higher than academic education at the lower levels of education and lower than academic education at the higher levels of education (Kahyarara and Teal 2008). The returns to general or academic education in Suriname for both the genders were found to be exceeding the returns to vocational or technical education from both private as well as social perspective (Horowitz and Schenzler 1999). Employment prospects and earnings were found to be lower for vocational school graduates in newly industrialized countries of Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia than academic graduates (Tzannatos and Johnes 1997).…”

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confidence: 79%

Vocational training in India: determinants of participation and effect on wages

Kumar

Mandava

Gopanapalli

2019

Empirical Res Voc Ed Train

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Background: India is at the cusp of a population change and is currently undergoing the phase of 'demographic dividend. ' This has thrown a challenge towards the policymakers to ensure that there are enough employment opportunities for the everincreasing labour force. One of the areas where improvement is urgently required in India is skill development. This paper attempts to identify the factors, which affect an individual's participation in vocational training using nationally representative National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) data. Further, we investigate the impact of vocational training on the wages of an individual at overall and sectoral levels. Methods: For addressing the first question of factors that are associated with participation in vocational training programmes, we will be applying logit and multi-nominal logit models. The explanatory variables will broadly be social and economic indicators of the individual as well as the individual's household characteristics. The second issue of identifying the effect formal vocational training on wages will be analysed through a multiple regression model. Results: We found that being an urban dweller increases the odds of participating in formal vocational training. Further, being male increases the odds of receiving formal vocational training. We found that having formal training increases the wage by 4.7% in the overall economy as compared to a person without any training. The effect is highest in the primary sector, where the individuals with vocational training had a wage increase of 36.9%. Workers with formal vocational training in the secondary sector had an increase in wages by 17.6%. Conclusions: The analysis done in the paper reveals that formal vocational training is associated with higher wages with the effect being the highest in the primary sector. Being male and urban dweller improved the odds of participating in formal vocational training. The model suggests that there exist good economic returns, which are associated with formal vocational training, and hence, it makes sense to invest resources in vocational training.

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Vocational training in India: determinants of participation and effect on wages

Kumar

Mandava

Gopanapalli

2019

Empirical Res Voc Ed Train

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“…Mincerian earnings regression (1st stage: probit regression) Horowitz and Schenzler (1999) Sources: See the chapter annex for detailed description of data sources.…”

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“…Suriname (1990,1992,1993) Suriname Household Survey 1990 (4 waves), 1992 (2 waves), and 1993; Survey sample: 7,010 individuals (cross-sectional) Horowitz and Schenzler (1999)…”

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The Right Skills for the Job?

Almeida¹,

Behrman²,

Robalino³

2012

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“…Vocational graduates earn a wage premium in Egypt (El-Hamidi, 2006), Israel (Neuman and Ziderman, 1991), and Thailand (Moenjak and Worswick, 2003). In contrast, general graduates earn a higher wage in Suriname (Horowitz and Schenzler, 1999) and, for students that continue on to university, in Tanzania (Kahyarara and Teal, 2008). Finally, Lechner (2000), KRIVET (2008), and Malamud and Pop-Eleches (2008) find no significant differences in labor market outcomes between the two educational tracks in East Germany, South Korea, and Romania respectively.…”

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The Value of Vocational Education: High School Type and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia

Newhouse¹,

Suryadarma²

2011

The World Bank Economic Review

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This paper examines the relationship between the type of senior high school attended by Indonesian youth and their subsequent labor market outcomes. This topic is timely in light of a recent policy shift that aims to dramatically expand vocational education. The analysis controls for an unusually rich set of predetermined characteristics, and exploits longitudinal data spanning fourteen years to separately identify cohort and age effects. There are four main findings. First, the estimated wage premium for vocational graduates, relative to general graduates, is greater for women than men. Second, the returns to public vocational school for men have plummeted for the most recent cohort, and male vocational graduates now face a large wage penalty. Third, the generally favorable outcomes of public school graduates can be partly explained by non-random sorting of students with higher test scores and better-educated parents into public schools. Finally, these peer effects appear to be particularly important for students with above-average test scores, as men with high scores earn a surprisingly small premium from graduating from vocational or private general school. These small returns for high-scoring men, as well as the dramatic fall in the earnings premium for all male vocational graduates, raise important concerns about the current expansion of public vocational education and the relevance of the male vocational curriculum in an increasingly service-oriented economy.

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Returns to General, Technical and Vocational Education in Developing Countries:recent evidence from Suriname

Cited by 24 publications

References 18 publications

Vocational training in India: determinants of participation and effect on wages

Vocational training in India: determinants of participation and effect on wages

The Right Skills for the Job?

The Value of Vocational Education: High School Type and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia

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