by Ma Yat Bong. / Thesis (M.A.Ed.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Bibliography: leaves 99-104. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.viii / LIST OF FIGURE --- p.xi / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.xii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.xiii / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- DEFINING THE RESEARCH PROBLEM --- p.3 / Chapter 2.1 --- "Scope of Adult Education, Continuing Education and Adult Continuing Education" --- p.3 / Chapter 2.2 --- Justification for the Development of Adult Continuing Education --- p.5 / Chapter 2.3 --- Importance of the Economic Justification for the Development of Adult Continuing Education --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Human Capital Theory --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Adult Education as Post-School Human Capital Investment --- p.7 / Chapter 2.4 --- Studies on the Economic Impact of Adult Continuing Education --- p.9 / Chapter 2.5 --- Difficulties in Identifying the Economic Impact --- p.10 / Chapter 2.6 --- Statement of Research Problem --- p.11 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- A REVIEW OF SELECTED LITERATURE --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1 --- Economic Role of Adult Continuing Education --- p.13 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- Basic Education for Remedial Purposes --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- Training and Retraining for Vocational Skills --- p.15 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- Employers' Sponsor and Corporate Effort Investment --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2 --- Adult Continuing Education and Earnings --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Earnings and Programmes at Postgraduate Level --- p.17 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Earnings and Programmes for Employment and Training --- p.19 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Earnings and Resource Conversion from Youth Education to Adult Continuing Education --- p.21 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- DEVELOPMENT OF INSTITUTIONALIZED ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION IN HONG KONG --- p.25 / Chapter 4.1 --- Historical Background and Its Recent Development --- p.25 / Chapter 4.2 --- Adult Continuing in Hong Kong - Agencies --- p.29 / Chapter 4.3 --- Aims at Increasing Productivity and Earnings of Participants --- p.31 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND THE HYPOTHESES --- p.33 / Chapter 5.1 --- The Theoretical Framework and Research Methodology --- p.33 / Chapter 5.2 --- Areas of Investigation --- p.34 / Chapter 5.3 --- The Hypotheses --- p.35 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Testing of Earnings Differentials and Participation in Adult Continuing Education --- p.35 / Chapter 5.3.2 --- Testing of Earnings Differentials and Employment in Matched Work Fields --- p.36 / Chapter 5.4 --- Methods of Analysis --- p.36 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Characteristics of Participants of Adult Continuing Education --- p.36 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Concurrent Earnings Premiums for Participants of Adult Continuing Education --- p.37 / Chapter 5.4.3 --- Earnings Advantages for Participants whose Employment is Matched with their Study Field --- p.39 / Chapter 5.5 --- The Data Set and the Variables --- p.41 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- FINDINGS --- p.45 / Chapter 6.1 --- Characteristics of Participants --- p.45 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Activity Status --- p.46 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Age --- p.47 / Chapter 6.1.3 --- Sex --- p.47 / Chapter 6.1.4 --- Programme Level --- p.48 / Chapter 6.1.5 --- Occupation --- p.48 / Chapter 6.1.6 --- Industry of Main Employment --- p.49 / Chapter 6.1.7 --- Field of Study --- p.51 / Chapter 6.1.8 --- Participation Rate --- p.51 / Chapter 6.2 --- Estimates of Regression Coefficients of Respective Earnings Functions --- p.70 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Concurrent Earnings Premiums for Participants of Adult Continuing Education --- p.70 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Earnings Advantages for Participants whose Employment is Matched with their Study Field --- p.72 / Chapter 6.3 --- Testing of Hypotheses --- p.86 / Chapter CHAPTER 7 --- CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.88 / Chapter 7.1 --- Characteristics of Participants --- p.88 / Chapter 7.1.1 --- Programme Orientation and Clientele --- p.88 / Chapter 7.1.2 --- Disparities among Participants --- p.89 / Chapter 7.2 --- Concurrent Earnings Premiums for Participants of Adult Continuing Education --- p.89 / Chapter 7.2.1 --- Justification of Employer-sponsored Programmes --- p.90 / Chapter 7.2.2 --- Motivation of Individual Participants --- p.90 / Chapter 7.2.3 --- Overcome of Brain-drain --- p.91 / Chapter 7.3 --- Earnings Advantages for Participants whose Employmentis Matched with their Study Field --- p.92 / Chapter 7.3.1 --- Remuneration Structure --- p.92 / Chapter 7.3.2 --- Adaptation to Technological Change --- p.93 / Chapter 7.3.3 --- Programme Quality --- p.94 / Chapter 7.3.4 --- Economic Performance of Individual Industries --- p.94 / Chapter 7.4 --- Recommendations --- p.95 / Chapter 7.5 --- Concluding Remark --- p.98 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.99 / APPENDICES --- p.105

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the skills development project which aims at developing income generating skills, impacts on the ability of unemployed women to generate income. Secondly, the researcher wished to know how the women who have been involved with the skills development programme, used the developed skills to generate income. The study, in order to document the experiences of the women in trying to gain these skills and to use them in generating income, has produced life histories of the women who succeeded in generating income after their dressmaking skills were developed. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2005.