ABSTRACT

The aim of this study is to investigate and compare rural and urban returns to additional vocational education after completing formal education in the Philippines. We estimate the returns to additional vocational education after formal education in formal employment and also rural/urban disparities for each industry sector. The investigation of the wage effect is based on the Mincerian Earnings Function, initially using OLS estimations and then correcting for sample selection bias using the Heckman method. Preliminary findings confirm that the wage effect is associated with additional vocational education for those completing secondary education, and the effect is more pronounced in rural than in urban areas. Thus, our principal finding is that vocational education is potentially more useful in rural areas, especially for those completing secondary education in the Philippines and especially considering that only about 6% of the workforce has completed any vocational education.

摘要

本研究的目的是调查和比较在菲律宾完成正规教育后农村和城市对额外职业教育的回报。我们估计了在正规就业中接受正规教育后额外职业教育的回报，以及每个行业部门的城乡差距。工资效应的调查基于 Mincerian 收益函数，最初使用 OLS 估计，然后使用 Heckman 方法校正样本选择偏差。初步研究结果证实，工资效应与完成中等教育的人的额外职业教育有关，农村地区的影响比城市地区更明显。因此，我们的主要发现是职业教育在农村地区可能更有用，