Gender, Vocational Education, and Economic Development: The Japanese Experience

Sharmistha Self and Richard Grabowski

Review of Applied Economics, 2005, vol. 01, issue 01, 37

Abstract: Economic development in Japan prior to World War II involved the expansion of labor intensive manufacturing industries that employed a large proportion of women. This was accompanied by the growth in vocational education for women as well as for men. Was the growth in vocational education, especially of women, a result of the economic expansion or a cause? In the postwar period vocational education for women grew slightly, while that for men declined. Was this caused by continued economic growth or did vocational education, especially for women, play a causal role in postwar economic growth? This paper attempts to address these questions using a recently available data set and utilizing the vector error correction methodology. The results indicate that vocational education, especially of females, played a causal role. Thus vocational education may be important in the early stages of growth for today’s developing nations.

Keywords: Labor and Human Capital; Marketing; Public Economics; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.143488

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