The impact of Human Capital on earnings - a study regarding urban Vietnam

• Main Authors: Wigren, Emma, Nilsson, Linda
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS) 2015
• Subjects: Vietnam; Transition Economy; Labor Market; Human Capital; Return to Human Capital
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-45061

The stock of human capital plays an important role for a sustained economic development, both at the individual and the country level. In order to prosper as a middle income country Vietnam need to increase the nation ́s human capital stock and this thesis shows that human capital theory holds for investments in years of education, knowledge of a foreign language and experience. Human capital investments, such as educational attainment and knowledge of a foreign language, are estimated to have significant impact on earnings in year 2012. Subjective evidence through interviews and observations are used to understand the underlying interpretation of these results in order to see how the labor market actually works in Vietnam.