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Preparing Women of Substance? Education, Training and Labour Market Outcomes for Women in Pakistan

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This paper investigates the economic (i.e. labour market) outcomes of ‘training’ for individuals in Pakistan. The labour market benefits of general education have been relatively well explored in the literature and specifically in Pakistan. They point to the benefits of education accruing both from education/skills promoting a person’s entry into the more lucrative occupations and by raising earnings within any given occupation. This research delves into another angle by investigating the role, if any, of acquiring ‘training’ – technical/vocational, apprenticeship or on-the-job - to look at both these channels of effect onto economic well-being.

 Dr. Monazza Aslam
 
This is done using data from a unique purpose-designed survey of more than 1000 households in Pakistan, collected in 2007. Multinomial Logit estimates of occupational attainment reveal how having undertaken training determines occupational choice. In addition, we also estimate the returns to schooling and to training. This is done separately for men and women. The results reveal that while acquiring training significantly improves women’s chances of entering self-employment and wage work (also the more ‘lucrative’ occupations), only wage-working women benefit from improved earnings through vocational schooling.
 

About the presenter:
 
Dr. Monazza Aslam is currently a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Education, University of London and has a DPhil in Economics of Education from the University of Oxford. She is an Education Economist with more with more than 10 years experience of working as an applied economist, her research interests include the Economics of Education and Labour Economics. Her work has been based on addressing gender and labour market issues in Pakistan. Her research has looked at schooling access as well as the quality of schools in Pakistan. Her work has been published in well reputed journals including World Development, Applied Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change and The Economics of Education Review.

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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 3/20/2013 03:31:00 PM,

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