The The Role of Education in Employment in Agriculture and Agriculture Performance in Vietnam

English

Abstract

This study aims to understand the direction of the relationship between employment in agriculture, education, and agriculture performance. This study uses the VAR method to see the response and encouragement between variables so that the dependent variable in this study is employment in agriculture,employment performance, and education in Vietnam. We found that education investment has a positive relationship with agricultural performance which was driven by agricultural performance in the previous period and negatively related to employment in agriculture. However, from this it can be seen that productivity which is the result of developing human resources through education mechanisms is getting bigger. Where labor productivity increases over time. However, looking at the graph of labor absorption in the agricultural sector which continues to decline very sharply, it becomes a threat in itself in the future. Because there is a decline in performance in the future due to labor shortages and it is possible that the agricultural sector will be completely destroyed when there is a shortage of labor in this sector if the interest of the Vietnamese youth in the agricultural sector is not invested. However, based on the estimation results, there is a positive relationship between agriculture performance, education, and employment in agriculture. This is good news for Vietnam because it has the potential to be a developed agrarian country. Where the interest of the Vietnamese population to work in the agricultural sector will be driven by itself through better agricultural performance.