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The returns to schooling in vietnam during economic transition: does rate of returns to schooling reach its peak?

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  • Tinh Thanh Doan

    (The University of Waikato)

  • John K Gibson

    (The University of Waikato)

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A common phenomenon about transition economies is that the return to schooling improves as economic reform progresses. Existing research suggests that Vietnam is not an exception to this pattern. However, the rate of return in period from 1992 to 1998 is still relatively low, below 5 percent, relative to that of the world and other transitional economies. And it is hard to see a clear trend in the current literature due to different methods applied and sets of variables controlled in the earnings equations. The low returns may result from the gradual economic reforms applied in Vietnam, whilst in Eastern European countries the “Big Bang” transformation was conducted. Therefore to see whether the return to schooling in Vietnam is rising and reaches other transitional economies' rate of returns, we re-examine the trend in the rate of return to schooling in Vietnam over the 1998-2008 period, where the reforms have had a longer time to have an effect. We apply the OLS and Heckman selection estimator (Maximum Likelihood approach) and find that the return has increased quickly during the later economic reform period but its pace has slowed down when the return reached the global average rates of returns around 9-10 percent (Psacharopoulos, 1994).

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  • Tinh Thanh Doan & John K Gibson, 2010. "The returns to schooling in vietnam during economic transition: does rate of returns to schooling reach its peak?," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 30(2), pages 1-15.
  • Handle: RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-10-00265
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    1. Doan, Tinh & Stevens, Philip, 2012. "Evolution of competition in Vietnam industries over the recent economic transition," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal (2007-2020), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), vol. 6, pages 1-24.
    2. Chris SAKELLARIOU & Fang ZHENG, 2014. "Returns to Schooling for Urban Residents and Migrants in China: New IV Estimates and a Comprehensive Investigation," Economic Growth Centre Working Paper Series 1407, Nanyang Technological University, School of Social Sciences, Economic Growth Centre.
    3. Phan, Diep & Coxhead, Ian, 2013. "Long-run costs of piecemeal reform: Wage inequality and returns to education in Vietnam," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 41(4), pages 1106-1122.
    4. Dang, Thang, 2017. "Education as Protection? The Effect of Schooling on Non-Wage Compensation in a Developing Country," MPRA Paper 79223, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Daeheon Choi & Chune Young Chung & Ha Truong, 2019. "Return on Education in Two Major Vietnamese Cities," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-30, September.

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    Keywords

    Economic transition; returns to schooling; Vietnam;
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    JEL classification:

    • J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
    • A2 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics

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