Does educational expansion encourage female workforce participation? A study of the 1968 reform in Taiwan

Wehn-Jyuan Tsai, Jin-Tan Liu, Shin-Yi Chou and Robert Thornton

Economics of Education Review, 2009, vol. 28, issue 6, 750-758

Abstract: Between 1968 and 1973 the Taiwanese government undertook the most extensive expansion on record of the public junior high school system in Taiwan. This study analyzes the effects of the 1968 education reform and subsequent high school expansion on gender disparities in employment generally, as well in different sectors and classes of employment. Our results show that the education expansion exerted a major influence on the reallocation of female workers across various sectors and types of employment, thereby contributing to the efficient reallocation of females in the Taiwan economy.

Keywords: Human; capital; Resource; allocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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