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Impacts of vocational education and training on employment and wages in Indian manufacturing industries – variation across social groups empirical evidences from 68th round NSSO data

By: Banerjee, Tanima.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SARNET Working PaperNo. 7. Publisher: New Delhi South Asia Research Network 2016Description: 31 p.Subject(s): Employment | Wage | Vocational Education and Training | Social groups | Manufacturing | IndiaSummary: Abstract Vocational education and training (VET) plays important role in developing skilled manpower in a country. Realizing the importance of VET, India has been putting emphasis on offering easy access to VET along with general education for meeting the increasing demand for skilled workers in the economy. However, in a third world nation like India where various administrative and institutional factors play pivotal role in the determination of employment and wages, people from all social groups may not get equally benefited from VET. How the impacts of VET on employment and wage income vary across social groups in India has been analysed in this study, and for this purpose, focus has been restricted only to the manufacturing sector of the nation. The main data source for this study is the employment and unemployment survey in India (10th Schedule) of 68th NSS (National Sample Survey) quinquennial round (2011-12). To tackle the sample selection bias problem, Heckman’s Sample Selection Model (1979) with two steps estimation technique (Heckit) has been used in this study. The study reveals that VET significantly enhances participation in the manufacturing sector of India across all social groups. But, the impact of VET on employment varies across manufacturing industries to some extent. Moreover, for OBCs and SCs, VET (inclusive of VET in any form) and formal VET, respectively, increase participation by significantly lesser extent than for General Caste people in Indian manufacturing sector as wage labourers. VET is found to be also helpful in enhancing wages of workers in the manufacturing sector at aggregate level. Nevertheless, at individual industry level, VET is found to be ineffective in certain manufacturing industries. On the other hand, the impact formal VET on wages is found to be more intense in the manufacturing sector as a whole as well as at individual industry level. The study also reveals that in certain cases, the impacts of VET on wages vary across workers belonging to different caste or ethnicity in Indian manufacturing sector.
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Abstract
Vocational education and training (VET) plays important role in developing skilled
manpower in a country. Realizing the importance of VET, India has been putting
emphasis on offering easy access to VET along with general education for meeting the
increasing demand for skilled workers in the economy. However, in a third world nation
like India where various administrative and institutional factors play pivotal role in the
determination of employment and wages, people from all social groups may not get
equally benefited from VET. How the impacts of VET on employment and wage income
vary across social groups in India has been analysed in this study, and for this purpose,
focus has been restricted only to the manufacturing sector of the nation. The main data
source for this study is the employment and unemployment survey in India (10th
Schedule) of 68th NSS (National Sample Survey) quinquennial round (2011-12). To tackle
the sample selection bias problem, Heckman’s Sample Selection Model (1979) with two
steps estimation technique (Heckit) has been used in this study.
The study reveals that VET significantly enhances participation in the manufacturing
sector of India across all social groups. But, the impact of VET on employment varies
across manufacturing industries to some extent. Moreover, for OBCs and SCs, VET
(inclusive of VET in any form) and formal VET, respectively, increase participation by
significantly lesser extent than for General Caste people in Indian manufacturing sector
as wage labourers. VET is found to be also helpful in enhancing wages of workers in the
manufacturing sector at aggregate level. Nevertheless, at individual industry level, VET is
found to be ineffective in certain manufacturing industries. On the other hand, the
impact formal VET on wages is found to be more intense in the manufacturing sector as a whole as well as at individual industry level. The study also reveals that in certain
cases, the impacts of VET on wages vary across workers belonging to different caste or
ethnicity in Indian manufacturing sector.

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