The Returns to Vocational Training and Academic Education: Evidence from Tanzania

Simple item page
dc.creatorKahyarara, Godius W.
dc.date2016-03-23T13:43:11Z
dc.date2016-03-23T13:43:11Z
dc.date2007
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-27T09:04:46Z
dc.date.available2018-03-27T09:04:46Z
dc.descriptionIn this paper we ask what can account for the continuing strong preference for academic education in Africa where the level of development is so low and there are few wage jobs and which form of educational investment, the academic or vocational, is most profitable. We argue that the answers to these questions are linked through the shape of the earnings function and the importance of firm effects. High levels of academic education have far higher returns than those available either from vocational or lower levels of academic. However at lower levels the vocational return can exceed the academic.
dc.identifierKahyarara, G. and Teal, F., 2007. The returns to vocational training and academic education: Evidence from Tanzania. World Development, 36(11), pp.2223-2242
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1297
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4534
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversity of Oxford
dc.subjectVocational and General education in Tanzania
dc.subjectmanufacturing
dc.subjecttraining
dc.titleThe Returns to Vocational Training and Academic Education: Evidence from Tanzania
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Reviewed

Files

Collections

Department of Economics