Vocational education and training in India: a labour market perspective
Vocational education and training in India: a labour market perspective
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DOI：
10.1080/13636820.2017.1303785
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Agrawal, Ankush
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作者：
Agrawal, Tushar;Agrawal, Ankush
技能发展一直是一些国家的一项主要政策议程，并且大力强调促进职业教育和培训方案。本文研究了印度职业培训人口的劳动力市场成果，使用的数据来自全国代表性的就业和失业调查。我们发现，15- 59岁年龄组的大部分人口没有接受过任何形式的正规培训。在职业教育和培训持有者中，非正规受训者占很大比例。劳动力中相当高比例的正式受训人员仍然失业，反映出人力资源利用不足。我们还审查了个人培训与其职业水平相匹配的程度，发现总体上约有三分之二的受训者从事与培训领域相关的职业。此外，我们使用标准收益函数来比较普通中等教育和职业教育流的回报，以解释样本选择偏差。研究结果表明，职业教育的相对回报率高于普通中等教育。
Skill development has been a major policy agenda in several countries and there is a lot of emphasis on the promotion of vocational education and training (VET) programmes. This paper investigates the labour market outcomes of the vocationally trained population in India using the data from a nationally representative survey on employment and unemployment. We find that a large section of the population in the age group 15-59years does not have any kind of formal training. Among the VET holders, a large share is accounted for by non-formal trainees. Quite a high proportion of formal trainees in the workforce remain unemployed reflecting underutilisation of human resource. We also examine the extent to which individuals' training matches their occupational levels and find that overall about two-thirds of the trainees are employed in occupations related to the field of training. Further, we compare the returns to general secondary and vocational education streams using the standard earnings function accounting for the sample selection bias. Our findings show that the relative returns to vocational education is higher than that to general secondary education.