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Previous studies had stated that, Individuals and households spend their money in
education to get better employment opportunity and enhance earning. Individuals and
households invest their money in education to get better employment opportunity and
enhance earning. In addition "Many workers increase their productivity by learning new
skills on the job" (Becker, 1975). In Batticaloa district, households spend their money to
access a superior job and earn more income in future. In this line working people have the
different level of education and skills. Anyhow, this is important to know that various
employments differ based on their own characteristics. Even if they have attempted in access
the education and skills to earn more through better employment, they would not gain
employment opportunity regarding their qualification and skills. Hence, there is a mismatch
between households' employment and their qualification and skills. Therefore, this paper sets
out to assess whether education appears to earn more in the Eravurpattu divisional
secretariat and Manmunai north divisional secretariat of Batticaloa district. Data were
gathered through structured questionnaire from 100 households in both divisional
secretariats of Batticaloa district. They were selected were selected by convenient sampling
method. Collected data were analysed by multiple regression analysis and correlation
analysis which was analysed through the STATApackage. The regression result revealed that
primary education, higher education and degree in the university have positively significant
impact on earnings at one per cent level. Conversely, studies on language, information
technologies and professional studies are not significant with earnings. According to the R squared value, adjusted R-squared value and F statistics also support with this studies
positively. Further, the correlation test revealed that the relationship between monthly
income and degree in university is a moderate and positive relationship. There is a weak and
positive relationship between monthly income and studies on information and technologies.
In contrast, monthly earnings with secondary education and primary education are found to
be a negative relationship. Though higher education, studies on language skills and
professional studies have no relationship with monthly income. Finally, this study revealed
that, mostly education level has a positive relationship with monthly income than other skills
development studies. |
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