Economic returns to schooling in a less developed country: evidence for Indonesia
The purpose of this study is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private return to schooling in Indonesia using sample data from Indonesian Family Life Survey 4 (IFLS 4). The augmented Mincerian model is utilised to quantify the private return to schooling. The main result obtained...
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Department of Economics and Food Sciences, University of Perugia, Italy
2011
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| author | Purnastuti, Losina Miller, Paul Salim, Ruhul |
| author2 | Nicholas Tsounis |
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| description | The purpose of this study is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private return to schooling in Indonesia using sample data from Indonesian Family Life Survey 4 (IFLS 4). The augmented Mincerian model is utilised to quantify the private return to schooling. The main result obtained indicates that the return to schooling in Indonesia is relatively low compare to other Asian and Less Developed Countries. It is also found that return to schooling for females are significantly different from those of males. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-86922023-01-18T08:46:47Z Economic returns to schooling in a less developed country: evidence for Indonesia Purnastuti, Losina Miller, Paul Salim, Ruhul Nicholas Tsounis Aspasia Vlachvei Martino Gaetano Theodoros Monovasilis earnings returns to schooling experience The purpose of this study is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private return to schooling in Indonesia using sample data from Indonesian Family Life Survey 4 (IFLS 4). The augmented Mincerian model is utilised to quantify the private return to schooling. The main result obtained indicates that the return to schooling in Indonesia is relatively low compare to other Asian and Less Developed Countries. It is also found that return to schooling for females are significantly different from those of males. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8692 http://kastoria.teikoz.gr/icoae2/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/053.pdf Department of Economics and Food Sciences, University of Perugia, Italy fulltext |
| spellingShingle | earnings returns to schooling experience Purnastuti, Losina Miller, Paul Salim, Ruhul Economic returns to schooling in a less developed country: evidence for Indonesia |
| title | Economic returns to schooling in a less developed country: evidence for Indonesia |
| title_full | Economic returns to schooling in a less developed country: evidence for Indonesia |
| title_fullStr | Economic returns to schooling in a less developed country: evidence for Indonesia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Economic returns to schooling in a less developed country: evidence for Indonesia |
| title_short | Economic returns to schooling in a less developed country: evidence for Indonesia |
| title_sort | economic returns to schooling in a less developed country: evidence for indonesia |
| topic | earnings returns to schooling experience |
| url | http://kastoria.teikoz.gr/icoae2/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/053.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8692 |