@article{Admit:249828,
      recid = {249828},
      author = {Admit, Zerihun},
      title = {Does Schooling Influence Productivity? The Case of  Ethiopian Manufacturing Enterprises},
      journal = {Ethiopian Journal of Economics},
      address = {2006-06},
      number = {683-2016-46850},
      series = {ETHIOPIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS},
      pages = {105},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {An empirical investigation was conducted to verify whether  schooling
influences productivity in the Ethiopian Public  Manufacturing
Industries. The results indicate that  schooling influences the
productivity of manufacturing  enterprises significantly; viz, the higher
the proportion  of the labour force with a high level of schooling in  an
enterprise, the higher is productivity. This implies  that increasing the
proportion of social wealth expended on  education is paying and that
the education system in  Ethiopia seems effective in translating skilled
manpower  into services. This, in turn, implies that not only  broadening
schooling in terms of quantity, but also  deepening schooling by
fostering quality could increase the  productivity of manufacturing
enterprises. Thus, government  has to intervene in supplying skilled
manpower since there  is a serious risk of private under-investment in
training  at a firm level. However, for successful industrialisation  to take
place, any government move to supply these  resources should involve
the beneficiaries in order to  balance demand and supply; give
emphasis to tertiary  education as strongly as basic education; and
synchronise  with other supportive schemes since human capital  investment on its own cannot lead to the industrialisation  of a country.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/249828},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.249828},
}