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Manpower in Taiwan: Evidence

from Social Demand and the Return

to Education

Fang-Chung Chang
Professor, Department of Educational Management, National Taipei
University of Education
Che-Sheng Gai

Professor, Graduate Institute of Educational Policy and Leadership, Tamkang
University

Abstract

The development of higher education and economic development are
correlated closely. In particular, higher education can provide manpower for

national construction to further economic development. Based on human capital
theory, this cross-national analysis aimed at an understanding of the average

development of higher education and the expansion of higher education across
the world, using the database from the World Bank from 1990 to 2016. Data
used in this study also came from the Manpower Utilization Survey conducted
by the Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics (1990 to 2017)

to examine the return to higher education. The results are as follows: First,
higher education has expanded too fast. The expansion of higher education

was so quick in Taiwan that it was 4% higher than that of the world average in
1995, and in particular, it was 24% higher in 2016. It was a latent problem for