Returns to formal vs. vocational education for men and women.

• Main Authors: Kang, Janice Qiu Fang., Koh, Angela., Sreemurugavel Vanitha.
• Other Authors: Sakellariou, Christos
• Format: Final Year Project
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::General::Education
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/9564
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The purpose of this paper is to examine the pattern of returns to formal and vocational education across quantiles. From the results we see that women with secondary and post-secondary vocational education benefit from a higher wage increment than males with the same educational qualifications.