| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 國際經濟研究所 === 100 === The purpose of this study is two-fold. The first one is to examine the effects of finance resource, the number of siblings, parents’ educational attainment and expected wage rates on the tracking decision of junior high graduates in two different age groups in Taiwan by using Logistic regression in association with the Extreme Bounds Analysis (EBA) method. The second one is to scrutinize the differences in wage rates and their growths between graduates of secondary vocational school and those of general senior high school.
The EBA results reveal that finance resource plays a significant role in affecting the decision of junior high graduates of both genders on selecting upper secondary education; while the number of siblings has no influence on the tracking decision. Male students having parents with higher education levels are more likely to choose general education than those having parents with lower education. This study also finds that when expected market wage rates tend to be higher, male students are more likely to choose vocational school for continuing their education. It is noticed that female students are not influenced by parents’ educational attainment and expected wage rates at all, although male students are.
With regard to the issue of wage differentials, we find that for both samples in two different age groups, vocational education leads to neither higher wage level, nor faster growth pace. These findings imply that, as far as pay wage is concerned, whether to undertake upper vocational education or to undertake general high school education make no difference.
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