Persistent Privilege? Institutional Education Gaps during Vietnam's Economic Boom

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ID21310489
AutoresDiep Phan (Department of Economics Beloit College Beloit Wisconsin USA), Ian Coxhead (0000-0001-6958-038X, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison Wisconsin USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen58
Número4
Páginas332-359
Fecha de publicación2020-12-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Developing Economies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0012-1533 • E-ISSN: 1746-1049
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/deve.12252
OpenAlexW3016482838
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas21

A persistent public–private sector difference in returns to skills is one sign that Vietnam's transition from command to market economy remains incomplete. Matching this is a large gap in post‐compulsory education enrollments, favoring children from families with members employed by government or state enterprises. We compare that gap between 2004 and 2014, a decade during which Vietnam experienced a boom in private‐sector and foreign‐invested economic activity. Despite the boom, we find a persistent and widening enrollment gap between “state” and “non‐state” households, which are similar in other observable respects. This institutional gap is not the only basis for enrollment differences—the ethnicity gap has also widened, even as rural–urban disparities have diminished—but they may contribute to slow and unequal progress in overall educational attainment. Unless addressed, enrollment gaps are likely to worsen intergenerational inequality and may reduce long‐run economic growth

Boom · Demographic economics · Development economics · Disadvantaged · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Ethnic group · Government (linguistics) · Inequality · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Oil boom · Political science · Private sector · Privilege (computing) · State (computer science) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Global Educational Reforms and Inequalities · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

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