<p>The study states that every time there is an ITeS centre being set up it results in a 5.7 per cent increase in number of children enrolled in its vicinity, specially of women. <br />The study, by Emily Oster & Bryce Millett of University of Chicago, notes that return to English-language schooling in Bangalore also tripled between 1980 to 2000 driven by the fact that outsourced job pay high wages while also demanding high levels of education besides good command of English.<br /><br />A similar study — The Returns to Human Capital & Gender Bias: An Experiment Test for India, by ULCA Department of Public Policy Associate ProfessorRobert Jensen, threw up similar results. The study, which sought to find out if employment opportunities for women lead to great human capital investments in girls, found that on an average 69 per cent of frontline call centre workers are women from its study of over 2,500 call centres in 17 countries, with rate in India being 45 per cent. <br /><br />The Oster & Millet study states that from 56,000 individuals employed in the sector in 1991, the figure, as per Nasscom, has increased to 2.3 million in 2010, the study observes that in the roughly same period (from 1991-2006), the share of children completing primary school likewise increased from 64 per cent to 86 per cent. <br />Further, school enrolment increase specially in district which witnesses more IT growth as a result of high wage returns the sector provided. <br /><br />The study, which observed the phenomenon in three states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, says English-language school enrolment increased among groups best able to take advantage of new jobs. The results were arrived at after observing each school in respective states over a period of four to eight years from early 2000s. <br /><br />The study notes that English-language school enrolment increases by about 13 per cent with introduction of each ITeS centre, whereas there was no significant change (either increase or decrease) for local-language schools. What is interesting, it says, is that whereever there was voice (call) centre as opposed to data processing, which typically required better command of English, it’s impact on English-language school was 16.4 per cent in comparison to -3.6 per cent for voice ITeS centre and local language school.<br /> The difference for non-voice centres was much smaller: 12.4 per cent for English-language schools versus 9.1 per cent for local-language schools. <br /></p>
<p>The study states that every time there is an ITeS centre being set up it results in a 5.7 per cent increase in number of children enrolled in its vicinity, specially of women. <br />The study, by Emily Oster & Bryce Millett of University of Chicago, notes that return to English-language schooling in Bangalore also tripled between 1980 to 2000 driven by the fact that outsourced job pay high wages while also demanding high levels of education besides good command of English.<br /><br />A similar study — The Returns to Human Capital & Gender Bias: An Experiment Test for India, by ULCA Department of Public Policy Associate ProfessorRobert Jensen, threw up similar results. The study, which sought to find out if employment opportunities for women lead to great human capital investments in girls, found that on an average 69 per cent of frontline call centre workers are women from its study of over 2,500 call centres in 17 countries, with rate in India being 45 per cent. <br /><br />The Oster & Millet study states that from 56,000 individuals employed in the sector in 1991, the figure, as per Nasscom, has increased to 2.3 million in 2010, the study observes that in the roughly same period (from 1991-2006), the share of children completing primary school likewise increased from 64 per cent to 86 per cent. <br />Further, school enrolment increase specially in district which witnesses more IT growth as a result of high wage returns the sector provided. <br /><br />The study, which observed the phenomenon in three states of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, says English-language school enrolment increased among groups best able to take advantage of new jobs. The results were arrived at after observing each school in respective states over a period of four to eight years from early 2000s. <br /><br />The study notes that English-language school enrolment increases by about 13 per cent with introduction of each ITeS centre, whereas there was no significant change (either increase or decrease) for local-language schools. What is interesting, it says, is that whereever there was voice (call) centre as opposed to data processing, which typically required better command of English, it’s impact on English-language school was 16.4 per cent in comparison to -3.6 per cent for voice ITeS centre and local language school.<br /> The difference for non-voice centres was much smaller: 12.4 per cent for English-language schools versus 9.1 per cent for local-language schools. <br /></p>
