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Returns to schooling, ability and cognitive skills in Pakistan
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education, Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP)
Abstract This study investigates the economic outcomes of education for wage earners in Pakistan. This is done by analysing the relationship between schooling, cognitive skills and ability on the one hand, and economic activity, occupation, sectoral choice and earnings, on the other. In Pakistan, an importan... mehr
This study investigates the economic outcomes of education for wage earners in Pakistan. This is done by analysing the relationship between schooling, cognitive skills and ability on the one hand, and economic activity, occupation, sectoral choice and earnings, on the other. In Pakistan, an important question remains largely unaddressed: what does the coefficient on 'schooling' in conventional earnings function estimates measure? While human capital theory holds that the
economic return to an extra year of schooling measures productivity gains acquired through additional schooling, the credentialist view argues that it represents a return to acquired qualifications and credentials while a third, the signalling hypothesis, suggests that is captures a return to native ability. This paper seeks to adjudicate between these theories using data from a unique purpose-designed survey of more than 1000 households in Pakistan, collected in 2007. The paper also examines the shape of the education-earnings relationship in Pakistan as a way of testing the poverty reducing potential of education in Pakistan.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bildungsinvestition; Arbeitsmarkt; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren; Kompetenz; Frau; kognitive Fähigkeit; Gender; Bildungsertrag; Einkommen; Einkommenseffekt; Pakistan; Schulleistung
Klassifikation
Arbeitsmarktforschung
Makroebene des Bildungswesens
Methode
empirisch
Freie Schlagwörter
rates of return; schooling; ability; cognitive skills
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Erscheinungsort
Cambridge
Seitenangabe
35 S.
Schriftenreihe
RECOUP Working Papers, 20
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung