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Investment in Human Capital: Vocational vs. Academic Education

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  • Orkodashvili, Mariam

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The dilemma of providing effective education particularly in developing countries with limited resources and ambiguous calculations of rates of return due to unstable economies and labour market fluctuations makes it an absolute necessity to consider costs and benefits associated both with academic and vocational education.Through argumentation and scholarly literature analysis the paper brings together the benefits of academic education and emphasizes its multiple positive implications as opposed to secondary-school level vocational education that has a number of problematic issues to tackle. The argument further develops towards shifting vocational education from secondary-school level to on-the-job short-term technical trainings.The paper also brings arguments from scholarly literature that while rich developed countries can afford certain amount of vocationally oriented subjects incorporated into comprehensive secondary school curricula, the most optimal way for developing countries to find the solution to the problem would be to conduct vocational training courses at job places and adhere to general academic education in secondary schools.

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  • Orkodashvili, Mariam, 2008. "Investment in Human Capital: Vocational vs. Academic Education," MPRA Paper 16558, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Middleton, J. & Demsky, T., 1989. "Vocational Education And Training - A Review Of World Bank Investment," World Bank - Discussion Papers 51, World Bank.
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    Keywords

    human capital; rates of return to education; manpower forecasting; efficiency effects of curricula; equity effects of curricula; hybrid curricula.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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