Earning differentials between high school, vocational education, and college graduates among working adults in Valenzuela City, Philippines

Date of Publication

2013

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics

Subject Categories

Economics

College

Ramon V. Del Rosario College of Business

Department/Unit

Economics

Defense Panel Member

,Tereso S. Tullao

Mitzie Irene P. Conchada

Abstract/Summary

The opportunity cost to pursue a higher education or to start working can be a challenging choice for individuals because the possible economic gains and costs must be weighed. This paper aims to examine whether or not there is a wage differential between types of education while considering the age and gender of an individual. Data gathered from the Community-Based Monitoring System will be subject to different series of regressions. Wage across different age cohorts, gender, education type will be subject to a difference-in-difference approach followed by series of robustness checks to validate our assumption. Ordinary Least Square regression and Multinomial Logit regression will be used to garner the results for this study. We hypothesized that at a certain age, college education graduates will have a higher wage than the high school and the vocational educational graduates, thus showing the wage differential of these educational systems.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU20057

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

64 leaves ; 28 cm.

Keywords

Wages--Philippines; Corporations--Finance

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