Tertiary Education in the Philippines: Individual Rationality and Social Myopia

Cayetano Paderanga

No 198914, UP School of Economics Discussion Papers from University of the Philippines School of Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes the phenomena of large volumes of college enrolment, educated unemployment and “job mismatch”. It reviews the structure of tertiary education in the Philippines, the investment behavior in schooling by individual households and the labor market in the Philippines. It concludes that the high rates of educated unemployment and job mismatch results from the expected response of household investment behaviour to the dualistic structure of the labor-market. The solution to the problems, therefore, are to be found in industrial rather than education policy.

Date: 1989-11
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Published as UPSE Discussion Paper No. 1989-14, November 1989

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