International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2019, Volume : 9, Issue : 6
First page : ( 543) Last page : ( 557)
Online ISSN : 2249-2496.

Education Attainment and Employment in Industrial Sector: South Asian Nationswithspecialreferenceto India

Arora Kanika*, Dr. Bhattacharjee Mahua**

*Masters Program, Economics, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India

**Associate Professor, Amity School of Economics, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh-India

Online published on 27 September, 2019.

Abstract

South Asian nations have observed a hike in labor force participation rate in past few years. This highlights the ability of these nations to achieve higher rates of growth by optimally utilizing demographic dividend. The paper makes an attempt to study South-Asian nations with special reference to India and develop a linkage between education attainment measured as mean year of schooling and employment in industrial sector with poverty. The performance of nations in first section is analyzed on the basis of HDI performance (education and employment) and top three nations are further regressed to obtain it's linkage with poverty. It has been found that education plays a major role in India and further has maximum effect on poverty. India should majorly focus on education i.e. involve in higher expenditure on education provision. Next section deals provide recommendations that may be incorporated so as to combat poverty. The study is limited for a period of 2005–15 due to non-availability of data for most of the variables for further years. The study could be conducted for other nations too, though the paper primarily deals with south Asian nations (excluding Afghanistan).

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Keywords

South Asia, Poverty, Growth, Education, Employment.

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