Estimating social returns to education using Singapore data.

• Main Author: Wu, Zhen.
• Other Authors: Sakellariou, Christos
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Business::General::Social aspects
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/7807
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Singapore experienced a long period of rapid GDP growth rates in the past decades. It led the “Asia’s miracle” and proved to be the most successful economy among the Asian “four tigers”. Due to scarcity of natural resources, Singapore’s human capital development was critical to achieve the goal of a...