Quality of higher education and the labor market in developing countries: Evidence from an education reform in Senegal
| Autor: | Dorothée Boccanfuso, Alexandre Larouche, Mircea Trandafir |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Education reform
Employment Economics and Econometrics Labour economics Sociology and Political Science Higher education media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development education Primary education Developing country Development Affect (psychology) jel:I21 Higher education employment impact analysis quality mismatch Economics Quality (business) Tertiary sector of the economy health care economics and organizations media_common Government business.industry Impact analysis Quality mismatch jel:O55 jel:O15 business |
| Zdroj: | Boccanfuso, D, Larouche, A & Trandafir, M 2015, ' Quality of higher education and the labor market in developing countries : evidence from an education reform in Senegal ', World Development, vol. 74, pp. 412–424 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.05.007 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.05.007 |
| Popis: | While many studies look into the effect of primary school quality on labor market outcomes in developing countries, little is known about the effects at higher education levels. In this paper, we use the experiment provided by a large-scale education reform launched in Senegal in 2000 to examine the effects of quality improvements at the university level on the labor market outcomes of young high-skilled workers. Our estimates from a difference-in-difference model suggest that young university-educated workers have an employment rate about 12 percentage points higher after the reform as compared to older workers. In addition, we find that they are more likely to find employment in the service industry and in public or private enterprises. These estimates, which are robust to a host of robustness checks, support the idea that improvements in the quality of education reduce the mismatch between the quality of labor demanded and supplied in the high-skilled market. |
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