Education and the Labor Market Crisis in Ethiopia

Abstract

A basic assumption about education and
its link with development strategies is its
role in creating a skilled and viable work
force. Both human and modernization
theories contended that a more educated
population is more productive and would
have the attitudes and behavior required
for a sustained modem industrialized
economy. This is the underlying
assumption in the goals of most
development strategies. Although therC?
is considerable research evidence to
support this assumption
(psacharopoulos, 1973), the world
economy and the econormes of
individual countries, are in sub
conditions that this aspect of education
and development is no longer tenable