The rate of return to investment in Taiwan higher education

• Main Author: 江志強
• Other Authors: 吳政達
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/55966609311926086246

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 教育行政與政策研究所 === 100 === The main purpose of this study is to examine the rate of return to investment in Taiwan higher education.The sample of this study is adopted from the Manpower Utilization Survey issued by the Directiorate-General of Budget,Accounting and Statistics（2010）. It used the Mincer equation to estimate the rate of different department return to investment in Taiwan higher education.It employs Ordinary Least Squares（OLS）for data analysis and the findings of current study can be summarized as follow: 1.Using Mincer’s and Psacharopoulos’s wage equation to estimate the different department of higher education was confired in Taiwan data. 2.In the returns to education on different department was significant,Male rate of return was higher than that of female, and the married was also higher than unmarried. The estimating results for urban employees was no significant higher rate of return. 3.In the returns to education on different department, business, engineering, science and medical was significant. The highest returns to education of department was science for 11.5%, and the higher was medical for 5.4%. The lowest returns to education was business and engineering.