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December 2003, Volume 16, Number 4, Pages 433-449
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| Effectiveness of 2-Year Colleges and the Performance of Their Graduates in the Japanese Labor Market |
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| Satoshi P Watanabe1 |
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1Research Center for University Studies, University of Tsukuba, 3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0012, Japan. E-mail: sw259@sakura.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp
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This article empirically examines the spread of higher education in Japan and the resulting changes in labor quality in the last two decades. This study uses the Divisia index numbers to measure the labor quality and quality-adjusted labor supply. It points out that quality might have declined rapidly in the recent past among higher educated workers, particularly those with technical and junior college education. This result suggests that the Japanese government should adjust its policy to develop its human resources to focus not only on the relatively low educated or the unemployed workers but also on those with higher educational preparation.
Higher Education Policy (2003) 16, 433-449. doi:10.1057/palgrave.hep.8300032 |
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technical and junior colleges in Japan; Japanese higher education and labor market; educational outcome |
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